Helly everyone,

I need your help really fast. I am gonna tell you all my story so you will have a good idea about what's going on.

My computer originally came with Windows 98 First Edition. I upgraded to windows ME. A couple of days ago, I purchased Windows 2000 Pro, because I figured I would need it for studying for my A+ Exam. Before Installing windows 2000, I formated Drive C:, and after that I divided my disk in two partitions, Primary Dos and Secondary Dos partitions. (Drives C, and the Logical Drive D). By the way, my harddrive is 8 GB, so I made the two partitions 4 GB each. On the primary partition, (Drive C I installed Windows 98, and on the secondary partition (Drive D, I installed Windows 2000 Pro. Before installing windows 2k it asks you if you want to format to NTFS. And that's what I did, (now Drive D is NTFS). Now, everything went allright, and I could run both operating systems on dual boot. So the installation went perfectly. Now, today I got an offer to sell my harddrive to someone for $50. That's a good offer isn't it? I am planning to buy a new one. Over 30 GB. I formated drive C:, to delete all applications, but when I tried to format Drive D: on dos, it did not recognize it, (because it's NTFS). So I can't find a way to format my NTFS partition. OK, I went and typed FDISK, and I got into the fdisk commands. I tried to delete the secondary partition, but it gives the message that a logical drive is on it, so I can't delete it. So choose to delete the logical drive, but it doesn't recognise any because it's in (NTFS format). So I can't get rid of my NTFS partition. I installed windows 98 again, on drive C:. At the same time Windows 2000 is installed. But this time after installing windows 98, I saw that It made some changes to boot.ini I think, because I don't get the dual boot command anymore, and on (Drive D, I don't have windows 2000 anymore, but I have my zip drive.
Now, to make my problem easier to you guys I have this questions....
I also tried the (Delete the non-dos partition), but it didn't work, and it said that there aren't any non dos partitions on you drive.


1) How can I format the NTFS partition? When I go to dos, it is not recognised?
I think after formating it, then it will be very easy to take the secondary partition of with FDISK.
I only want to have one partition (8 GB).

2) After Installing Windows 98, it changed my Drive letter for my Windows 2k partition, it's not D: anymore. I have no Idea what it is. And I cant find out what it is from Windows 98 or DOS because it's not recognised since it's NTFS.

3) I think there were made some changes in boot.ini or in some of the other commands, since I don't get a promt to ask me for a dual boot... How can I make it dual boot again?
I am sure that I still have windows 2000 on my disk because I saw it with FDISK, and before installing windows 98 on drive c:, it warned me that the other partition is NTFS.

Please I need your help.... As soon as posssible..

Thanks in advance,
XtremeFighter

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To delete NTFS partition, you may boot up your computer using the win2000 installation CD-Rom (it is bootable) When the DOS-based installation wizard guides you through the installation process, you will be asked how to partition your hard disk, you may then delete the NTFS partition.

Hope this help

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Hey kwoksir,
After making the post, I thought of trying one more thing to solve my problem. I put in my Windows 2000 CD-Rom, and before making the installation, windows asked me in which partition did I want to install it. After choosing (Drive D, which was NTFS, I had an option to format it to FAT32. I formated it to FAT32 using the Windows 2000 CD.
After that I canceled the installation, while it was initializing, so nothing was on my harddrive yet. I went on fdisk, and deleted the second partition. I reformated Drive C: and chose the option (at fdisk), to put all the space available to C:. After that, I installed windows 98. Now, everything is going smooth with the system.

Thanks anyway for your answer,
XtremeFighter

By the way, I would like to hear what the rest of you would have done If you were in my situtation...

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http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/d..._level_ata.html

low level format or massive zero-fill

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interesting article!

Thanks for posting.
XF

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Another program you can use to delete the non-dos partition is Delpart.exe. Then you can reformat and do what you like with your drive. I have the program saved to disk and kept handy.

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How big is the file?
Can you give me the URL where I could download it? It would be a good tool to have.

Thanks,
XF

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Originally posted by XtremeFighter
How big is the file?
Can you give me the URL where I could download it? It would be a good tool to have.

Thanks,
XF

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File is not big at all fits on a floppy. Here is the
link:http://tweakcentral.com/delpart.exe

This should help you.

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Thanks Kjones!
I appreciate your help.

Regards,
XtremeFighter

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I have all the answers to your computer problems.
If you still need help contact me right away.

Whan running a dual boot you can not format a drive NTFS!

I can email you the files you need to completely wipe out your hard drive.

Let me know if you still need help and good luck.

mrgrunge

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