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I want to do a complete deinstall of Win2000 and reinstall Win 98. How do I get rid of 2000?
Urgent.
Thanks;
Steve
If your drive is FAT32:
Start your computer with your Windows 98 startup disk and at the prompt type FORMAT C:
If your drive is NTFS:
Start your computer with your Windows 98 startup disk, and at the prompt run FDISK. Delete the NTFS partition, create a new DOS partition, reboot your computer and at the prompt type FORMAT C:
Once the drive is formatted be sure your Win98 CD is in the drive and type SETUP at the prompt. It will walk you through from here.
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I see a problem as I have a partitioned drive C: User, D:Administrator
How do I completely clean my drive of both partitions?
Steve
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Steve,
FDISK should be able to delete and recreate the partitions, but sometimes it has trouble getting rid of NTFS partitions. If so, run the Win2K setup, and use it to delete the partitions. Then reboot and do your install of Win98 then Win2k. But before that, from the command prompt of the Windows startup disk, you might want to type this command:
>fdisk /mbr
Most the time it's not necessary, but a few times I've seen it where it was. It won't hurt anything to do it, and only takes a second.
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If I have my Win98 inserted before booting my computer boots anyway ignoring the disk!!
So I can't get to Fdisc. My partitions (C & D) are both Fat32.
I downloaded a (very bad) instruction sheet from Microsoft and that also says "boot your computer using the Win98 Startup disk".
Sigh!!Steve
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"If I have my Win98 inserted before booting my computer boots anyway ignoring the disk!!"
Hang in there, Steve, we'll get through this. If what you meant is that when you have your Win98 boot disk inserted, and you boot up and it skips the boot disk and goes into Windows, then your BIOS might not have the floppy drive as the first drive to attempt booting from. Check your BIOS settings, and see in what order are the boot drives. If you still have Win98 working on your computer, then this isn't a problem. Just boot into Windows 98, then select START, SHUTDOWN, and as the shutdown option, select "Restart in MS DOS mode.." or something like that. This will get you into the command prompt, and then you'll be able to get into FDISK.
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Hi Steve
in that case I use DELPART, or the fdisk from boot disks of OS/2 (but I don't know where you could download a copy of them).
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