Anyone wonder yet how he converted his FAT32 partition to NTFS? He didn't do it from within Win98! There are two ways he could have done this. 1.) If his computer is already a dual boot, with Win98 and an NT (being NT, Win2K or XP) based operating system on it. In that case, you just boot into the NT based OS and reformat the drive back to FAT32 (after backing up the boot files first, then copying them back after the formating). or 2.) He used NT based setup floppies or CDROM to do the formatting. In that case, he'd just boot from the disk(s) again and this time select FAT32 as his file system. If you can't boot from the Win98 disk, but you can with a linux disk, are you using a copied disk?

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Maybe one of these will do it . http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/index.html Freeware . WIPE OUT : as the name implies, this utility will absolutely WIPE your hard drive. For those times when an industrial strength cleaner is needed to remove any pesky files Fdisk may have left behind. A readme file is included in the zip file. WARNING...WIPE OUT will remove ALL data from the Hard Drive. -------------- http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm Zap is a DOS software utility that writes zeroes to the first 128 sectors on a hard disk drive, including the Master Boot Record and the first Partition Boot Record. It can be used with both SCSI and IDE drives. This function is now included in the Drive Fitness Test. ------------------ Setup switch /ig for installing windows on a system which has incompatabilities. ----------------- http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm Wipe is a DOS software utility that writes zeroes to every sector on a hard disk drive up to 8 GB. It can be used with both SCSI and IDE drives. This function is included in the Drive Fitness Test.

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Delpart (is a util - and not bootable...) is run via the a:>\ prompt - after booting up (usually) from a '98 boot-disk boot - although the boot-disk can be either the dos or '9x variety; and it can be safely added to a suitable boot-disk to avoid a disk change... delpart.exe (part of NT3.1 RK) freebie download at: http://hercules.lss.ksu.edu/download/MSSTUFF/index.htm It removes just about any partition - permanently...; after-which use Fdisk/format to reconfigure drive afresh... Fdisk tutorials (and other useful/relevant info): http://www.btinternet.com/~robert.bale1/formatinstall.htm http://www.compguystechweb.com/index.html Kwite how did you manage to convert fat32 to ntfs...? Regardless - if the system is still intact (albeit ntfs) you may/should be able to use one of the various utils around that will convert ntfs back to fat32? The usual items are PM or SC (System Commander), and there are some freebies around too?

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Everything fixed now :-) Thankyou. WIPEOUT dos utiliy from http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/index.html works just fine. After running wipeout on the c: drive i went through a lenghty procedure of formatting fidisking etc... My system has win98 back on it now.. cool. As for why i did a FAT32 to NTFS i was planning to make my computer a dual boot of win98/linux8.0 . I had installed paragons software which is a partition manager. some misleading tips made me do the FAT32 to NTFS conversion through that software and it took me quite some effort to get my win98 back. Anyway thanks for all ur help. BTW delpart didnt work for me..even when i ran from the bootfloppy.

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