Re: Reloading old operating system

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Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 16:45:02 -0500

Hi,

You need to delete the NTFS partition and create a primary DOS one first.
Win98 setup will not know what do to with an NTFS partition. Some system
recovery disks automatically wipe the entire drive, and may not be
encumbered by this - for the rest you will need to boot a startup floppy and
run fdisk to remove the non-dos partition. Then create the FAT32 one, reboot
to the floppy and format before installing Win98.

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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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"John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:16AD8219-1055-4954-9275-0E48962CF77D@microsoft.com...
>A couple of months ago I upgraded my operating system from Windows 98SE to
> Windows XP Home. I formatted the drive and did a clean install, the file
> system is NTFS.
> I am now fed up with XP constantly generating errors on programs that I 
> use
> daily and shutting them down, also it`s inability to load older Microsoft
> programs such as Encarta World Atlas without messing about in the 
> registry.
> I now want to go back to Windows 98SE and normality.
>
> If I put the Windows 98 Disk into the CD drive and select the option "Will
> format drive and load Windows 98" will this convert the drive back to 
> FAT32
> and load windows 98,or will I have to convert the drive to FAT32 first? 

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