Re: hard drive?????

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From: Plato (|_at_|.|)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: 23 Mar 2004 15:05:09 -0600

Don wrote:
>
> How can a Win98 boot disk create an ntfs partition. Using fdisk will delete
> all data anyway.

A win98 bootdisk can delete a primary ntfs partition, but not a ntfs
logical drive within an extended partition. Either way, the only thing
deleted is the partition, the data remains intact and recoverable. fdisk
does not erase data. 

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http://www.bootdisk.com/

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