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I need to reformat my hard drive, but I am having trouble because two of the partitions are NTFS. I need to convert them back to FAT32 before I can use FDISK to delete them, and restore ONE single partition on the hard drive. Can anyone provide me with detailed instructions for doing this on Windows XP Pro???
If the NTFS drive is inside the extended partition (logical) then they hidden to win9x boot floppy, it would be called NON-DOS partition as primary, best to use the bootable XP cd to delete & create NTFS.
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Response Number 4
Name: tropic Date: July 11, 2002 at 00:03:10 Pacific
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Haha, I was bored, so I emailed you a floppy diskette self-extractor . . . unzip the attached file, run HDD_WIPE.exe to create the bootable floppy, leave the floppy in the A: drive and reboot. That's all. The floppy will completely wipe ALL partitions from your primary hard drive.
I'm not joking. Don't boot your computer with the floppy inserted unless you really, really mean it!
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Response Number 5
Name: tropic Date: July 11, 2002 at 00:06:57 Pacific
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