formating help

[airis2001]

I think i made a big mistake. I tried to reformat a ntfs drive to fat23 using fdisk, and not I cant get it back up and running
can someone giv me a setp by step guide to getting this drive back using fdisk and format, both from win ME. HELP please, I need this drive.
Thanks, Ari

 

[Jittos]

I've never used winME. can you get into DOS?

 

[Jessman]

If I'm not mistaken fdisk won't recognize an NTFS partition. You need to use an NT setup disk to change it to FAT before you can do anything else to it.

 

[Budman]

Cant you just delete NON Dos partition in Fdisk?

 

[Jessman]

I think it has something to do with the security in NTFS as to why fdisk won't completely delete it.🙁

 

[lowtech1]

Boot to DOS prompt using boot flopy that have FDISK & FORMAT file.

At prompt type: FDISK /MBR then proceed to del non DOS partition.