corvert h/drive from ntfs to fat32

[charlie1]

hi all
could someone please help me out a little
Im trying to format a hard drive with a win98 system disk, but because its a ntfs file sysem it will not let me do it. anyone know how i can get round this problem. i need the pc up and running by the morning for relatives business.
Any help would be more than a appreciated.

[Redfallon]

wipe out the partition with fdisk (or partition magic or something like it) and re-partition then it will reformat it.

[bailey]

fdisk will wipe it clean, partition magic will do it without loseing any data that is on it.

[rjfvillarosa]

If you know the make of the hard drive you could download the manufacturers diagnostic tools and run a lowlevel format which will zero fill the hard drive.

[edrod13]

use the win98 boot disk and use Fdisk. In Fdisk the NTFS partition will be shown as a non-dos partition. Destroy it, create a new one using FAT32, set it active, and format.