Re: Deleting an FAT32 partition

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Your original XP install files are on 6 floppies? Are these
actual Microsoft created floppies, or something someone copied
for you? Do you have your Certificate of Authority (COA)?

If this is a legitimate question, and a legitimate copy of
windows XP, you'll have to add more information to get any help.
Something doesn't smell right about your post, so much more
detail will be needed.

Pop


toreilly wrote:
I am still trying to format my hard drive and get rid of
the partition. Have followed the various advises like
starting with the 6 floppies, no option here to format:
Have followed the document describing how to manually
uninstall XP and format the drive on which it resided but
even though this went thro the motions, on start up I still
was in the same position, e.g. still have the dual boot of
WIN98SE (FAT32), on 2GB and WINXP (NTFS), on 36GB.
To make it simple, if that is possible, what I want to do
is revert to a clean formatted hard drive with the full
capacity of 38GB and no partition.

Please help again and thanks for the previous help and
advise.

tom

"toreilly" wrote:

I am building a desktop at home and want to run WINDOWS
XP.

The hard disk I have is partitioned: I have a 2GB of
FAT32 and 36GB of NTFS.

How do I get rid of the FAT section so I can use the 38GB
for WINXP?

Thanks in anticipation.

tom



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