I justc an't seem to give up the driver compatibility/gaming performance of win98 Vs. Win2k. I have been trying to uninstall Win2k for the past 3 days with no success. When using a 98 bootdisk it says NTDFS not found. when in C prompt and tryinf to format it says my disk is locked unable to format...someone,.. anyone help me get rid of this insanley stable even more stubborn OS

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/Forum9/HTML/000343.html its the same for w2k

1. Boot up with a Win98 bootdisk 2. At the prompt type FDISK 3. Choose YES to any questions 4. Get into FDISK and go to the delete options 5. Delete the non dos partitions (option 4) 6. Go through and delete any other partitions 7. Create a primary partition and make it active (choose your size or make it use all the space) 8. reboot and either format the drive or else install Windows Oh, and reboot whenever FDISk makes you. That's it roughly...

Ok I know I should be able to do that but when restarting with the 98 boot disk I get a message. NTDFS not found press any key to restart. THE BOOT DISKS DON"T WORK. I have tried multplie copies ofthem to make sure it wasn't the disk...it's not I have no idea what NTDFS means and I can't format the drive fromt he c:\ promt option in accessories becasue the drive says it's in use by another application and its locked...What do I do W2K will NOT DIE! HELP

try to use the utility program called "Disk Manager" from IBM. it can format NTFS too. hope this can help

You should turn to a third party drive partion manager such as POWER QUESTS'S excellent PARTITION MAGIC, which is avail. from http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/pmdemo.html Unfortunatly it's just a demo, but is well worth the price if your planning on using partition's on your system There are other third party partioning software programs avail. from this link on www.download.com http://download.cnet.com/downloads/1,10150,0-10001-103-0-1-7,00.html?tag=srch&qt=partition&cn=&ca=10001 Hope this helps

Rather than go through them all here (and in effect duplicate an excellent how to site...) check out the assorted routes to removing W2K at: http://www.budja.com/w2k/uninstall_w2k.html Also using the NT3.51 Resource Kit util - delpart.exe - will lose just about any partition - permanently. It was omitted from NT4 RK. It's available (freebie 27K download) at: http://hercules.lss.ksu.edu/download/MSSTUFF/index.htm (parent site: http://hercules.lss.ksu.edu) (The above source is safe/clean.) Afterward run Fdisk/format to reconfigure HD as you wish; also run the " sys c: " routine to reset the boot-loader to the DOS/'9x version; or when you format C: include the /s switch. If 'delpart' won't lose it/them either, then I guess you are into the M$ debug routine to lose 'non-DOS' partitions - permanently... i.e. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q106/4/19.ASP But I'd only go this route after exhausting all others first...