Need advice on reformatting

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Gordon Nelson

I have WinXP installed on an old laptop. I wish to scrub the hard disk clean
and install Win98SE. Can anyone point me to a freeware or shareware disk
utility that will do that? I have tried Fdisk that is included on a Win98
startup disk, but when it sees the drive is now completely allocated to
NTFS, I can't get it to do anything--can't delete the partition or anything.
Just cycles through an endless loop. I have a nifty Western Digital CD with
good utilities on it, but the hard drive on the laptop is an IBM drive and I
can't find anything useful on the IBM website. The WD disk is only for WD
products. Purchasing Partition Magic is a solution, I suppose, but I'm
trying to conserve my resources.
 
Gordon

When using the FDISK function of a Win 98 boot diskette, you have to use the
option to delete a NON-DOS partition first..
 
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Gordon Nelson said:
I have WinXP installed on an old laptop. I wish to scrub the hard
disk clean and install Win98SE. Can anyone point me to a freeware or
shareware disk utility that will do that? I have tried Fdisk that is
included on a Win98 startup disk, but when it sees the drive is now
completely allocated to NTFS, I can't get it to do anything--can't
delete the partition or anything. Just cycles through an endless
loop. I have a nifty Western Digital CD with good utilities on it,
but the hard drive on the laptop is an IBM drive and I can't find
anything useful on the IBM website. The WD disk is only for WD
products. Purchasing Partition Magic is a solution, I suppose, but
I'm trying to conserve my resources.
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