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Partitioning the Hard-drive

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Name: Mojo
Date: July 8, 2002 at 14:07:34 Pacific
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I have a hard drive that has been partitioned into a 2GB partition and a 37GB partition. When i run the fdisk I am unable to delete the extended dos partition which is set as an NTFS partition, because it says the logical drive must be removed first. However when i go to remove the logical drive it says they have been already deleted. I believe the problem may be because fdisk which is running in 98 is unable to read the ntfs partition so therefore it cannot be removed, however I'm not sure and I'm not sure how to remove it so the hard-drive can be re-partitioned to be 50-50. Help on this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank-you



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Name: Kevin
Date: July 8, 2002 at 14:44:07 Pacific
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Boot the PC from a CD (or floppies) that can access NTFS partitions (NT, 2000, or XP.

Go through the setup. When you get to the point of picking the partition that you want to install onto, delete every partition. Then create a partition with as FAT32.

After you format your partition, re-boot the PC before the install starts.


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Name: dave
Date: July 8, 2002 at 15:46:49 Pacific
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If you open the Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management, you will be able to create and delete NTFS and FAT partitions using the Disk Management tool.


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