Re: fdisk?


As mentioned, fdisk is of little use to you in NT-based systems and
useless for NTFS. But you can still use fdisk to remove partitions, and
add delaprt.exe to the boot floppy to remove stubborn NTFS partitions or
logical drives.

'Win98 SE boot floppy'
(http://users.adelphia.net/~abraxas/dl/Win98SE.exe) (with large drive
fdisk, unformat.exe, and delpart.exe)

You might also try starting the installation with the XP setup
floppies:

'XP Setup Boot Disks' (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994)

or this single setup floppy:

http://tinyurl.com/5gqj


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