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Rebuilding a clean partition

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by friscojw

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I want to wipe out my C: and D: partitions. Erase the Win2k Professional and Windows 2000 Advance server and rebuild the box. Do I boot with a DOS floppy and FDISK?

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by fenaikh

Hi
there are 3 possibility:
1- If your file system FAT 16 yes you can dos it with DOS and fdisk.
2- If you file system FAT 32 you need to have a win98/se/me startup disk to boot for fdisk to work.
3- IF your file NTFS then you need your setup startup disks for win2k. or use

ntfsdos.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdospro.shtml

Eight ways Windows 2000 deals with your data
https://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?src=search&id=r00220011114cnt01.htm

Good luck
Mohamed

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by saihib

If you have trouble deleting your partitions with fdisk, and you may, do a search for delpart.exe. This free utility is great for wiping out partitions on a hard drive.

by aib01

You can start to make a new install of Win 2000 (go into setup, boot from CD ROM, reboot). Start a clean install. When it asks what partition, delete all the partions you want and reformat in the start-up. Then carry on with the install.

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