_generally speaking_..

Boot with a win98 DOS startup floppy and run fdisk, saying "yes" to "large disk
support". Select the 2nd drive and delete the "non-dos" partition.

Create an extended partition in its place. Create a "logical" within that.
Exit fdisk, reboot and format the drive from windows explorer.

I don't know the exact syntax of any of these steps, as I seldom
use fdisk, but that should give you the general idea.



"joe" wrote in message ...
Thanks Don

Small problem. I can no longer get into Win2000, can that FDISK be
extracted from the CD ?
Thanx for your help

"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
...
"joe" wrote in message
...

I run 98se and have 2 hard drives. I decided to install Win2000 on my
second
drive to see how it was then decided against using it. During
installation
I
requested NTFS. Having abandoned this project I am now back with my
original
98se installation and the second drive ( ex win2000 ) is installed and
can
be seen during post etc... but I cannot "see" it from win98se (
presumably
because of NTFS ) How do I get to the drive to reformat it as FAT32 ??

1. Use Win2K FDISK to remove partition(s).
2. Use Win98 FDISK to create and format partition(s).

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)