Reformatting NTFS hard drive

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Scott

I recently gave my son a hard drive that had been
reformatted to NTFS. Not only can he not reformat it back
to FAT32, but his Windows ME system does not even
recognize it. Any ideas as to what might work?
 
Assuming you have a
98 or ME boot floppy (Because they include drivers for the CD-ROM Drive),
boot with that. At the prompt, type fdisk and press enter,
delete the non-dos partition, create a primary dos partition, set it active
and exit.

Reboot the system with 9x floppy in the drive and at the prompt type format
C: and press enter. Once format is
complete, change to your CD-ROM drive and with the 98 CD in the drive,
type setup, press enter and follow the screens.

If you don't have a 9x boot disk with CD-ROM support, visit
www.bootdisk.com.
 
Scott
If you have a cd with XP:
Boot to the cd and get to the command prompt
type in FORMAT C: /FS:FAT32 press enter
George
 
Use fdisk to delete the Non-DOS partiton (thats what Windows ME will see the NTFS as). Then create a
new FAT32 partition and then format.
 
Scott said:
I recently gave my son a hard drive that had been
reformatted to NTFS. Not only can he not reformat it back
to FAT32, but his Windows ME system does not even
recognize it.
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Boot the MS Startup floppy (taking 'without CD support, or Minimal
boot'). Run its FDISK (say Y to 'Large disk support?') and select that
drive as the one to work on, then delete the 'Non-DOS partition' and
make a new 'DOS Primary Partition' in the space released. Note the
drive letter that gets, then reboot to the floppy still to FORMAT X: for
whatever letter x it is.
 
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