[WEB4LIB] Removing XP

[Jodi Thomson]

Try booting on a DOS disk eg MS DOS 6.22 and running fdisk.exe
[4] View partitions on disk 
[3] Delete partitions
    [4] Delete Non-DOS partition

NTFS partitions will show up in DOS fdisk looking like the old OS/2 HPFS
partition

A Windows 95/98 bootdisk with their respective version of fdisk should
also work

Hope that helps

Jodi
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie Irwin [mailto:cirwin at wheelock.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 November 2002 14:16
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Removing XP
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    I'm trying to remove XP from a new computer. The main 
> problem I'm having is getting rid of the NTFS formatting. If 
> anyone has suggestions, I'd be happy to here them. SinceI'm 
> not sure this is a "list" topic, I'd be happy to take 
> off-list replies.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Charlie Irwin
> 
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