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by parier 1 view

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How can I partition Windows XP? I have a HP Laptop with 9GB. Id rather have 2 partitions of 98 (One for toys and one for work) I can do everything from partitions. My question is how do I rid of the NTFS partition and start over with a fresh 2.5and 6.5G partitions? Any help would be appreciated. (Also, Im sure there is a FREE way of doind this, I dont want to have to buy any software - please!)

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by zlitocook

You can try partition magic to resize partitions but with a ntfs partition it may not work for installing win98. You may need to blow away the drive and install 98 first then xp with the ntfs second. M.S. is not a great O/S to change things after it's installed.

by dmiles

Using a Windows 98 startup disk insert in A:\drive
At the Command Prompt type Fdisk,when the panel opens choose the option to Delete the Non-DOS Partition,if this works the the NTFS partition will be deleted and you can proceed to partitioning and formatting the drive for Win 98
You may want to check out DELPART.EXE,to use in that you donot want to buy any software,see the following sites
http://www.rustysmith.com/delpart.htm
http://fdisk.radified.com/
http://computing.net/windowsnt/wwwboard/forum/3005.html

by parier

Excellent, I have 2 Win98SE installed running with a XOSL boot menu, this really helped! I totally forgot about fdisk!!!

Thanks!

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