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10-20-2003, 08:05 PM
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NTFS Drive
I have corrupted my windows 2000 srp 4.0 such that I need to perform a clean install. I have 2 Hard Disks in my system. My main hard drive was created into 2 NTFS using Partition magic, namely c: and d. The OS was installed on C: I have backed all the info from these partitions that I need. I need to re-format the c: portion or even both I dont really care as I have backed my data to the secondary drive.
I have a WIN98SE boot disk with delpart.exe on it. Obvisouly format c: does not work with NTFS. Can some briefly outline how I can format my primary drive with the utilities I have. 
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10-20-2003, 08:17 PM
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use partition magic to delete and format the drive, it will do ntfs
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10-21-2003, 09:49 AM
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Don't tread on me
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fdisk = delete non fat partitions...or something like that...
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10-22-2003, 02:37 AM
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boot with your win2k cd and during setup have it format the drive with ntfs for you
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10-22-2003, 09:02 AM
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Fdisk will not remove an ntfs logical drive in an extended partition. It can remove a primary ntfs partition. It is for this reason that you do not use win9x / dos utilities to install win2k. As the previous poster has said; boot with the win2k cd [cd set as first boot device in the bios] delete all partitions and recreate them as you want. Format with ntfs and setup will continue to load win2k.
I have found loading software in this order gives the most stable system. 1) Load os 2) Install sp4 [if your disk does not have it] 3) Install chipset mb drivers 4) Update to DirectX9 [if needed] 5) Install sound, nic, raid drivers [if needed] 6) Install video driver last |
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