[thelist] [OT] Win 98/NT tips

Billy Hutton Billy Hutton" <bhutton at effectnet.com
Mon May 22 15:01:07 2000


DOS FDISK will only remove NT partitions if they are FAT16 or FAT32.  If the
partition is NTFS, then DOS FDISK will not work... hence the original tip.
You can use a Linux bootdisk to do the same thing.  ;)

> The DOS FDISK command would do this as well.... and its usually right on
> your installation diskette....
>
> <snip subject="NT partitions">
> If you are stripping Win NT off of a machine & it has left a partition
that
> you can't remove download this program
> http://hercules.ksu.ksu.edu/download/MSSTUFF/delpart.exe
> Don't know if it works for other types of partition, but it saved me a lot
> of trouble.
> </snip>