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by kripplek

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am trying to fdisk and reformat a computor with win me on it and want to switch to w2k but the putor will not allow me to fdisk at the A prompt and will not give keyboard control.I have a 98 boot disk but still nothing happens ,have changed the boot seq.around and still nada. this should be simple from the prompt and straight forward. insert disk wait for the prompt ytpe fdisk and proceed but it acts like a dead ship in the water need a suggestion or an avenue to go to thx

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by thechas

Is this a desktop or a laptop?

If a laptop, there may be a security utility in the BIOS to prevent running fdisk or other disk utilities from a floppy.

If a desktop, it could still be a BIOS security setting.

It is also possible that a drive overlay program is installed on the drive, and that is preventing you from accessing the drive from a floppy boot.

Check with the drive mfg for supported utilities. And how to boot from a floppy and remove the utility.

Next, go to add/remove programs, and create a Me startup disk.
See if that works to bootup and fdisk the system.

Next, remove the hard drive, and install it as a slave in another PC.
Then, run fdisk from there.
Just make sure that you have the correct drive selected before deleting any partitions.

Chas

by zlitocook

Win98 boot disk dose not have need to format or fdisk a computer. If you have XP, 2000 or ME you will need delpart, it compleatly removes all NTFS partitions. These are partitions that are created when they are installed, but can not be seen by older programs. If you use Delpart you will have to receate partitions and format them! If you have any questions about this email me and I can send you detailed info on it.

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