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by crystaltec

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Hi Steve,
I messed up a XP installation, firstly I installed win98/2 on C drive, than XP on D drive. As I never used XP before. The computer is Intel 845 M/B & P4 1.7Ghz
Now, as I wanted a clean installation & to change size of partitions I went to fdisk & tried to delete the partitions. I couldn't delete Ext Dos partition(with XP on it) & ended up deleting & formatting the primary partition,C drive (Win 98) .
Now System won't start...'missing OS'
Can not delete ext dos or logical drive inside it...does it make sense? which way is out? Appreciate asnyone who has the time to answer this one(-:
All the best Uri B.

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by ann777

You need a win98 boot disk and need to reformat the c drive with it... format c: /s .... then you should be able to boot to it.

If you want to recover your whole hdd, you will need to boot from your WinXP cd-rom and delete both partitions through it.

Win98 is FAT/32 ; WinXP is NTFS. You will not be able to see the WinXP partition with plain old FAT or DOS.

by marconeil

The problem could be that XP is on an NTFS partition - FDisk won't recognize an NTFS partition. You would then have to go into FDisk and make the Non-Dos partition Active. Since I'm not sure this will work, you would then have to create a partition on C: in FDisk, restart your computer with a boot disk, and format the C: partition.
To get rid of XP on your D: drive, you will have to remove the non-DOS partition in FDisk.

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