Format Hard Drive to remove Windows 2000 NT

[Guest]

Hi,
I've decided to remove Windows 2000 NT from my Laptop so I can install
Windows 98 which I believe will improve the Laptops performance. How do I
remove Windows 2000 NT. The laptop won't let me just format the drive while
Windows 2000 is running. Is there a way to get around this?
Thanks,

 

[Wouter]

Hi,
I've decided to remove Windows 2000 NT from my Laptop so I
can install Windows 98 which I believe will improve the
Laptops performance. How do I remove Windows 2000 NT. The
laptop won't let me just format the drive while Windows 2000
is running. Is there a way to get around this?
Thanks,

Boot from the W98 floppy or W98 CD.
Use the fdisk utility to remove the W2K (non-DOS) partion(s) and
use the W98 setup program to partion/format the harddisk again.

 

[Alex]

Hi,
I've decided to remove Windows 2000 NT from my Laptop so I
can install Windows 98 which I believe will improve the
Laptops performance. How do I remove Windows 2000 NT. The
laptop won't let me just format the drive while Windows 2000
is running. Is there a way to get around this?
Thanks,

Boot from the W98 floppy or W98 CD.
Use the fdisk utility to remove the W2K (non-DOS) partion(s) and
use the W98 setup program to partion/format the harddisk again.

Is the drive formatted in NTFS? If it is, then the W98 floppy disk may not read the drive. Why not boot from the W2k floopy disk instead? HTH.

 

[Guest]

Hi Alex,
Thanks for the quick response and oh how I wish it would be so easy. Problem
is the disk is formatted in NTFS and I purchased the unit used with W2K
already installed. I have no disk or floppy to use as it did not come with
one.
Any other ideas as to how to format the drive? I have both a cd rom incliued
with the Laptop (IBM Thinkpad Model 770) and an external FFD. I aslso have
CD's of WIN 98 and a Recovery Floppy of Win 98. I can boot off the floppy to
get an A prompt and it creates a virtual c: drive but won't recognize the C:
drive that contains W2K.
Thanks, Bill

 

[Steven Burn]

Go to www.bootdisk.com and download one of their boot disks (they have 2K
BD's and 9x BD's with NTFS capability)

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Hi Alex,
Thanks for the quick response and oh how I wish it would be so easy. Problem
is the disk is formatted in NTFS and I purchased the unit used with W2K
already installed. I have no disk or floppy to use as it did not come with
one.
Any other ideas as to how to format the drive? I have both a cd rom incliued
with the Laptop (IBM Thinkpad Model 770) and an external FFD. I aslso have
CD's of WIN 98 and a Recovery Floppy of Win 98. I can boot off the floppy to
get an A prompt and it creates a virtual c: drive but won't recognize the C:
drive that contains W2K.
Thanks, Bill

not read the drive. Why not boot from the W2k floopy disk instead? HTH

 

[Guest]

Hi,
Unfortunately the c: drive is formatted in NTFS and the Win 98 setup program
won't recognize it. I purchased the IBM Thinkpad 770 used with W2K NT
professional already installed and do not have a W2K disk.
Any other ideas of how to proceed?
Thanks,
Bill

 

[Alex]

Hi,
Unfortunately the c: drive is formatted in NTFS and the Win 98 setup program
won't recognize it. I purchased the IBM Thinkpad 770 used with W2K NT
professional already installed and do not have a W2K disk.
Any other ideas of how to proceed?
Thanks,
Bill

Boot from the W98 floppy or W98 CD.
Use the fdisk utility to remove the W2K (non-DOS) partion(s) and
use the W98 setup program to partion/format the harddisk again.

I can't remember exactly but I think there should be somewhere you can create a W2k boot disk from your OS. Think that's critical as once you manage to get the disk, you're almost there.

 

[Wouter]

Hi,
Unfortunately the c: drive is formatted in NTFS and the
Win 98 setup program
won't recognize it. I purchased the IBM Thinkpad 770 used
with W2K NT
professional already installed and do not have a W2K disk.
Any other ideas of how to proceed?
Thanks,
Bill


I can't remember exactly but I think there should be
somewhere you can create a W2k boot disk from your OS. Think
that's critical as once you manage to get the disk, you're
almost there.

You guys are all confused.
To install W98 you should not use any W2K boot disk.
Use a W98 boot disk and use (as earlier said) the fdisk utility
on that bootdisk to delete the existing partions on the
harddrive.
The NTFS partion will be shown as NON-DOS and can be removed by
fdisk.

 

[Guest]

What do i do once i have gone to bootdisk.com and downloaded the boot disk?

 

[Steven Burn]

Assuming you've downloaded the correct BD (9x if your wanting to install a
9x platform, 2K if your wanting to install a 2K platform), extract the DL
package onto floppy, re-start with the floppy installed....... FDisk the
drive, and install 9x/2K depending on which your doing.

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Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

What do i do once i have gone to bootdisk.com and downloaded the boot disk?

create a W2k boot disk from your OS. Think that's critical as once you
manage to get the disk, you're almost there

 

[Steven Burn]

You guys are all confused.
To install W98 you should not use any W2K boot disk.
Use a W98 boot disk and use (as earlier said) the fdisk utility
on that bootdisk to delete the existing partions on the
harddrive.
The NTFS partion will be shown as NON-DOS and can be removed by
fdisk.

I'd not noticed the OP was wanting to install 9x....... \

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Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[Wouter]

Assuming you've downloaded the correct BD (9x if your
wanting to install a 9x platform, 2K if your wanting to
install a 2K platform), extract the DL package onto floppy,
re-start with the floppy installed....... FDisk the drive,
and install 9x/2K depending on which your doing.


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Uhm...
Reading all this I believe your performance problem is not
related to the use of Windows 2000 (unless your laptop is quite
old fashioned).
Any Pentium PC with at least 64 MB (preferably 128 MB) memory
should run much better with Windows 2000 then Windows 98.
According to your questions I think you should ask someone with
a bit more experience to help you to install this PC (with
Windows 2000 again...).
Installing and finetuning Windows 98 is even harder then
installing Windows 2000.

 

[Steven Burn]

Installing and finetuning Windows 98 is even harder then
installing Windows 2000.

Thats got to be the biggest understatement ever! <g>

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Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[Wouter]

Thats got to be the biggest understatement ever! <g>

I never bothered installing Windows 98 untill some years ago,
allways dealed with NT and W2K.
Wow...my first W98 experience was a shock.
Such a slow installation process and so much nagging nonsense
got default installed (all that MSN stuff, the AOL and other
nonsense stuff); and you first need to install A MODEM to get
your Internet Explorer setup done...even if you don't have or
use a modem but just want to go over the network.
The network setup struggle (with more reboots than needed in
W2K).
Finally, that W98 BOD "application" that starts allways in the
middle of writing your most critical report ;-)
W2K installation is an almost automated process for the pretty
good default installation.

 

[Steven Burn]

I never bothered installing Windows 98 untill some years ago,
allways dealed with NT and W2K.
Wow...my first W98 experience was a shock.
Such a slow installation process and so much nagging nonsense
got default installed (all that MSN stuff, the AOL and other
nonsense stuff); and you first need to install A MODEM to get
your Internet Explorer setup done...even if you don't have or
use a modem but just want to go over the network.
The network setup struggle (with more reboots than needed in
W2K).
Finally, that W98 BOD "application" that starts allways in the
middle of writing your most critical report ;-)
W2K installation is an almost automated process for the pretty
good default installation.

I never had a problem installing 9x (pretty much straight forward IMHO), it
was always when trying to get things config'd correctly that it would always
go t*t's up (esp where networking was involved).

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Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[Dave Patrick]

To wipe the drive, some ways include; boot a win98 startup disk, run fdisk
and delete all partition information found (as long as NTFS is primary). Or
boot the Windows XP CD-Rom and when you get to the point, delete the
existing NTFS and or other partitions found, then abort the install. Or use
a utility named delpart. Once removed you can boot the win98 CD-Rom or
restore CD-Rom to start your install.

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt31/i386/reskit.exe

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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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| Hi,
| Unfortunately the c: drive is formatted in NTFS and the Win 98 setup
program
| won't recognize it. I purchased the IBM Thinkpad 770 used with W2K NT
| professional already installed and do not have a W2K disk.
| Any other ideas of how to proceed?
| Thanks,
| Bill
|
| "Wouter" wrote:
|
| > | >
| > > Hi,
| > > I've decided to remove Windows 2000 NT from my Laptop so I
| > > can install Windows 98 which I believe will improve the
| > > Laptops performance. How do I remove Windows 2000 NT. The
| > > laptop won't let me just format the drive while Windows 2000
| > > is running. Is there a way to get around this?
| > > Thanks,
| >
| > Boot from the W98 floppy or W98 CD.
| > Use the fdisk utility to remove the W2K (non-DOS) partion(s) and
| > use the W98 setup program to partion/format the harddisk again.
| >
| >
| >