06-06-2001, 11:00 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2000
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I have a WinNT system that I am locked out of because I forgot the password. I would like to reformat the drive, wipe everything out and then install Win98. I don't care about any of the data currently on the system.
I have heard of the f-disk procedure. Is this something that I need to use, and if so, what is it? How should I go about doing this. I don't have any of the original software to the system but I have many generic windows boot disks and I can get one from some other WinNT system if necessary. -Ender |
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06-07-2001, 06:57 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Well first of all why are you going from nt (4 I pressume) to 98? Depending on how you partitioned it will determine what you need to do. If you had it formated with fat32 (would assume win2000 then) then just get to a dos prompt from either dos or win9x or nt boot disk. at a:\ type format c:
Now if it is setup as ntfs or if you want to repartition it then use fdisk. If you are only using win98 I personally would set up one partition with fat32 (hopefully you have a win98 boot disk which would make this easier to do.) If not their is a site http://www.bootdisk.com that you can make one from. fdisk is a dos program that allows you to partition drives (ie make one hardrive look like multiple drives c,d,e etc.) After partitioning your drives you then need to format them. Hope this helps. |
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06-07-2001, 09:38 AM
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why anyone would go from win2k to 98 is beyond me
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06-11-2001, 12:24 AM
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the admiral formerly known as overclocked
 
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Outside the mainstream
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Any time I need to completely wipe a hard drive I use AEFDISK. It's different from FDISK cuz it doesn't bother looking at the current partition table, it just writes a new one. The little app is pretty powerful. I almost always run it this way (usually typed at an A: prompt):
aefdisk /delall This switch just writes a new empty partition table to the hard drive, thus effectively deleting all partitions. It can do much more than just this however. If you want to check out the other stuff it can do, just type aefdisk /? for the help file. After I use AEFDISK I then use FDISK to setup my partitions. Oh, and here's the link to download it: http://www.bootdisk.com/dosfiles/aefdsk17.zip -OC
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