how can i get rid of a partition on my hard drive format doesn't seem to do it?

Question

after formatting the hard drive and loading win98
a message that says there is a windows NT file partition that wont work id like clean the hole hard drive and start clean on this older computer

Answer 1

Not quite sure what you mean but anyway try Partition Magic:

http://www.soft32.com/download_151.html

wdw

Answer 2

You did not mention what the size of the other partition is. But I suspect it is very small and there for a reason. Most older computers store the BIOS set up and other information in a special small partition on the hard drive. If that partition is removed, the drive would not function properly. Usually the partition is about the size of two mpeg songs, so it would not give you enough space to be worth it even if you could safely remove it.

Answer 3

It's almost impossible to do while the system is running.

Better, turn your computer on, put in the installation disk, then turn the computer off.

Restart and "press any key to boot from CD", you'll come to the option to either install on the existing partition or perform a clean install which will automatically delete the existing partition. This will solve your problem.

Answer 4

Windows 98 does not natively support the NTFS file system (Windows NT file Partition)

Download this to read the partition (no need to format it).
http://www.diskinternals.com/download/NTFS_Reader_Setup.exe

Delete and format it with Acronis (better than Partition Magic)
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/

Answer 5

fdisk is the program that you want to use. Should be available in the Win98 setup. Once in fdisk, delete all your "logical" drives, then your extended partition, and then your active partition. You may have to start fdisk with a command-line parameter like /X to delete the NT partition -- but fdisk itself will tell you this when you try to delete that partition. Once all partitions are deleted, you can re-install Win98. It should either set up a single partition, or perhaps will bring you back to fdisk where you can do that for yourself.

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 6

again UP ANY files you could!! Then stick the homestead windows installation disk contained in the disc stress. even as the computing gadget starts off up it really is going to boot off the disk instead of the complicated disk. There should be an decision to format the complicated stress and reinstall homestead windows.