Reformatting your HD

1. Create a Windows 98 startup disk (Cntrol Panel, Add\Remove programs, Setup tab).

2. Boot from floppy.

3. Run fdisk and delete the existing partitions. This will delete all data on all partitions. Back up first if you need to.

4. Still using fdisk, create a primary partitionand make it active. If your drive is over 2 gig, check enable large disk support.

5. Then format C: /s to format and make the disk bootable.

Tried that, but it did not work.
When I try to delete extensions, it says there are logical drives. When I try to delete logical drives, it says no logical drives defined.
To top it, I cant delete the primary partition when there is an extn !
Am fixed.. please help

Hi try this, get yur disc's for nt and start an install go through all the way it will ask you if you want to install ntfs or fat 16, choose fat 16 and it will reformat to fat 16 reboot let everthing come up once up and running then shut down and put in your windows start-up disc and fdisk all of your partions. Reformat and choose use all. I guess you know the drill here. Give a try adn let me know. rockyolson@charter.net

NTFS is difficult to delete boot the system in NT,from the Start>go to disk administrator and select the partition and then select delete,reboot the system and then you can use FDISK,to delete the FAT32 partition.

You can use the following program: Partition Magic 5

I have use it in the past and it works great. You will keep all data on the FAT32 drive. Partition Magic 5 work with many file systems, from FAT32 to NTFS to UNIX

Hope this helps

You can use a free utility called Delpart.exe to remove any existing partitions. Then you will be free to format at will.

One place you can find it is www.bootdisk.com

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