Re: Formatting/Reinstalling OS

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From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 18:38:35 -0600

A couple of other ways to wipe the drive include; boot a win98/ME startup
disk, run fdisk and delete all partition information found (as long as NTFS
is primary). Or use a utility named delpart.

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
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
|A few more details are in order here:  First, The xp cd
| is a Dell XP operating system reinstallation cd, not a
| regular cd. When I first installed it and tried to remove
| the existing partition, it told me it couldn't remove it.
| So I installed anyway thinking it would wipe out the
| other.  Now, when I run this Dell cd I get an error
| message saying "Unmountable Boot Volume" giving me
| directions to uninstall the problem software when I don't
| know how to do?

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