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11-17-2004, 03:29 PM
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Removing NT from laptop::
I was given a laptop from my Aunt that her work gave her(they were replacing the laptops) ; it has NT 4.0 on it and I want to replace it with my own operating system. How do I remove it. I tried to reformat the drive but it says that I can't perform that task.
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11-17-2004, 03:45 PM
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Depends on what OS you wish to use, essentially, you need to boot with the bootdisk of the OS and when prompted delete partitions that exist and create new ones.
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11-17-2004, 03:53 PM
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I tried to load WIN 98 SE and it said that I couldn't load this except in the MSDOS mode.. I can't get to the DOS mode the system says You can't do this in NT 4.0. How do I get to DOS?
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11-17-2004, 04:08 PM
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boot from the CD and run FDISK to delete your partitions and create a new one. If the partition is NTFS, you'll have to do so by removing the non-DOS partition. Reboot from the CD again and continue with formatting and installation.
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