ok guys i wana piss my NT off and put ME onto my machine, altho wen i setup ME it wont install as my partition on C: is not big enough, and it tells me that my partition on D: will not be available. So i go into windows and disk admin, try and delete the partition on D: and it wont let me, saying the drive is locked, or in use, and so i try a format on D: and same errors. I have no utils, or progs running on D: or anything that requires D: at the time of my format. Also i go into DOS and try and format D: and it says format not supported on this drive! please guys, can yall help me i wana get rid of NT and put ME on as its primarily used at home..... thanx :)

I suspect that your D: drive is NTFS so when you booted DOS it couldn't open the partition. What you need is a DOS boot disk with a copies of FDISK.exe and Format.com. If you know someone with a PC running Win98 or WinMe get them to make you a boot disk as these progs will be up-to-date for FAT32 partitions. Boot off of the floppy and run fdisk to delete the NTFS partition. If the C: partition is too small you could delete it also and then create new partitions, format them and then install Win Me.

Your info is a little confusing... but to get you going (fast?), download delpart.exe from: http://hercules.lss.ksu.edu/download/MSSTUFF/index.htm (27K freebie) and use it to delte all partitions; then reconfigure HD for ME and install. To use delpart.exe - boot with a DOS'9x boot-disk; at the prompt: type: fdisk /mbr and then press Enter (clears out MBR area). Then replace boot-floppy to the delpart floppy, run util, follow on screen prompts. Delpart.exe was part of NT3.1 Resource Kit, omitted from all other versions of NT; will remove just about 'any' partition - permanently. You can also add the util to your boot-floppy and run it from there - after booting up; saves a disk change... Presumably you know how to use Fdisk/format correctly/effectively?

sweet yea i kno how to do it, thanx wil give it a go

What Maurice said was not entirely correct. Fdisk will not be able to delete an NTFS partition. That's why you need delpart.exe