Re: Format Hard Drive to remove Windows 2000 NT

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From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:18:28 -0700

To wipe the drive, some ways include; boot a win98 startup disk, run fdisk
and delete all partition information found (as long as NTFS is primary). Or
boot the Windows XP CD-Rom and when you get to the point, delete the
existing NTFS and or other partitions found, then abort the install. Or use
a utility named delpart. Once removed you can boot the win98 CD-Rom or
restore CD-Rom to start your install.

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt31/i386/reskit.exe 

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
"AZDESERTSKIES" wrote:
| Hi,
| Unfortunately the c: drive is formatted in NTFS and the Win 98 setup 
program
| won't recognize it. I purchased the IBM Thinkpad 770 used with W2K NT
| professional already installed and do not have a W2K disk.
| Any other ideas of how to proceed?
| Thanks,
| Bill
|
| "Wouter" wrote:
|
| > "AZDESERTSKIES" <azdesertskies@msn.com> wrote in
| > news:AE9BADD1-6018-4D09-9235-EAAD18B49E1F@microsoft.com
| >
| > > Hi,
| > > I've decided to remove Windows 2000 NT from my Laptop so I
| > > can install Windows 98 which I believe will improve the
| > > Laptops performance. How do I remove Windows 2000 NT. The
| > > laptop won't let me just format the drive while Windows 2000
| > > is running. Is there a way to get around this?
| > > Thanks,
| >
| > Boot from the W98 floppy or W98 CD.
| > Use the fdisk utility to remove the W2K (non-DOS) partion(s) and
| > use the W98 setup program to partion/format the harddisk again.
| >
| >
| >

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