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Replace NTFS with Win98
Name: Eric Date: September 3, 2001 at 01:18:54 Pacific
Comment:
Previously I had dual boot Win98 (C:) and WinNT4.0 (D:, NTFS). I formatted D: to get rid of NT from C: but when I wanted to remove the NT partition using FDISK, probably the FDISK doesn't recognize NTFS. How can I remove the NTFS partition so that I may let Win98 take over the space formerly used by NT's partition? (I don't want dual boot anymore and want to let my whole hard disk used by Win98, yes a must)
I backed up everything already and don't care about disk content anymore :)
In detail, in FDISK I couldn't delete the 'Extended Partition' although the "Logical Partition" has been deleted. I tried every kind of deletion already in FDISK and so I suspect fdisk doesn't recognize the former NTFS partition format.
I have a second computer installed with Windows ME....is there any tool that I can employ to recover that NTFS space for my first machine?
Name: narg Date: September 3, 2001 at 02:02:06 Pacific
Reply:
try this site it may help http://www.nswc.navy.mil/ISSEC/Docs/AISSO/nt_ovrwrt.html
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Response Number 2
Name: Eric Date: September 3, 2001 at 02:20:06 Pacific
Reply:
Narg,
My NTFS partition content is gone prior to fdisk!! i.e. I don't have anything in hard disk, but the partitions of both NTFS and Win98 are still there....how can I merge them into one single Win98 Partition?! I cannot remove WinNT
Eric
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Response Number 3
Name: narg Date: September 3, 2001 at 02:42:05 Pacific
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I don't think you can merg them, but i don't use nt that much. Try the nt forum, if that does not work or you don't get a result. Use the if all else fails measure: format, if that does not work low-level format and start again.
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Response Number 4
Name: Dave Date: September 3, 2001 at 07:05:40 Pacific
Reply:
http://rustysmith.com/delpart.htm
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Response Number 5
Name: Eric Date: September 3, 2001 at 07:25:51 Pacific
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Dave, Thanks a lot. I think it works. It's really a helpful tool from NT 3.51 that works for the Millennium!
Eric
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Response Number 6
Name: nobody Date: September 4, 2001 at 08:14:09 Pacific
Reply:
Have you heard of Partition Magic 6.0 ..Can't live without it.. Lets just say it can do what you want ..change ntfs to fat32 and vice versa
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Response Number 7
Name: Hey Date: September 5, 2001 at 04:36:45 Pacific
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I agree with Nobody, The application allows you to merge or do what you want? Way, way bettre then fdisk( you can see what each partition is etc). :)
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