I am having Windows 98 Second Edition on the Boot partition which is C(FAT).Further I have an Extended Partition with logical drives and a NTFS partition which was made while Installing Windows 2000.Hard disk is a total of 20 Gig but 500 Meg is being occupied by the partial installation of Winy2k Windows 2000 Installation is not complete because of some compatibility problem.I have checked everything possible to find out why the installation while detecting mouse etc hangs! I decided to upgrade the Bios but the residuals of WinY2k doesn'nt let me proceed.I want to delete this NTFS partition for the the time being.Have already tried Fdisk and Delpart.exe.Nothing seems to help.The text based installation whatever it is on this NTFS partion is not visible through any of these utilities.Is there any other tool I can use?I want to avoid uninstalling Windows or formatting the whole HDD once again.Please help !

During the installation of Win2k, you have the option to delete a partition. Start the installation again and remove the partition you want. You can then exit the install and your partition should be gone. Or, you can just continue with the install, whatever works for you.

Hi Glen Thanks for your response,but I had already tried this option.The problem is that the hard disk space is not being released approx. 500 Meg.I want to upgrade my BIOS version,thats when the booting process tells me that Ntldr is missing and doesn't proceed. I have to get rid of this partition in order to proceed with the BIOS upgrade and thereafter install the WinY2k which is having problem to get installed.Any suggestion about any other utility ?

Boot with a partition magic 5 boot floppy which will load the pm program with which you can get rid of your ntfs partition. e-mail me if you need more help.

Possibly you are getting stuck with the W2K boot-loader etc. being partially installed, and you have a dual-boot of sorts... - albiet totally NBG as far as W2K... Boot with a '98 boot-disk; type: " sys c: " (not the " ") at the prompt, press Enter; remove boot-disk and you reboot to a DOS level, and also to '98 (only). You will have replaced the W2K boot-loader (if present), with the DOS/'9x version. (The W2K boot-loader 'usually' goes in almost immediately set-up begins, regardless of whether the installation is successful or not.) You should then be able to run the BIOS flash routine? Afterwards you can run the appropriate W2K set up routines to either remove the NTFS area, or install W2K afresh??? Might not hurt to run the W2K hardware compliance util as well to see if your system is OK for W2K? Incidentally, don't BIOS flash routines run straight from a floppy, thus bypassing the boot-loader on the HD? As I understand it that's the case usually with a Dell?

I like the idea of trying Partition Magic to solve the NTFS partition removal or disk space release as I already have the possibility to go ahead with the installation and choose the option to delete that partition and the click F3 to quit.This has been done by me already.Starting the installation is not the problem.Problem arises when I boot from the disket containing the BIOS upgrade. Now my question is where do I download the free Partition Magic version ? Do you have the link which I can download that from? I appreciate your response to my problem. Thank You guys!