NT Installation

It is a royal pain, since you cannot really do it while NT is running. You can blow away the ntfs partition by beginning a re-install of NT, selecting the partition, and having it re-format as FAT. After this has been done, you can use fdisk in DOS to remove the partition.

If you just want to blow away NT, leaving the rest of the NTFS partition intact, and if you cannot install this drive as a second drive on some other NT machine, look at www.sysinternals.com for utilities to read and writeNTFS partitions from DOS.

Good luck.

You may be able to boot to your CD and leave the NT disk in the drive and re-boot. If your BIOS/CMOS or CD do not support this, you may be able to boot using a 98 boot disk and boot with CD support. Third option is to use the NT setup disks and thenthe partition type doesn't matter. How did you partition it NTFS without the setup disks or NT already installed?

You can't "uninstall" NTFS ! You can't even regress it to a FAT variety. OTOH, NTFS is beter than FAT ... However, if you want to install Win 95, for example, ... the "easy" way is:

Buy a new hard disk and make _that_ one into IDE channel 1, device 0. Install the OS of your choice there. Move all your data from your old HD (now physically installed elsewhere on your system) to the new disk, and blow away NTFS.

NTFS can be changed back to FAT or FAT 32 but it is a royal PITA. The easiest way that I have found is to find a copy of either Western Ditigals or Segates HD setup disk. This will let you complete change the disk. Partition Magic 5.0 and better will letter you do it from a GUI interface. Find someone that can make you s set of boot disk from Partition Magic 5.0 and go at it.

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