Formatting a ntfs drive from a win98 system

cmf21

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Sold my Windows xp computer but pulled my hard drive out which was setup as a ntfs file system. I am going to be selling the drive which is to be used in a win98 system and need to convert it back to the old file system. If there an easy way to do this.

This is OS, not General Hardware related.

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Markfw

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Yes, put in a WIN98SE bootable floppy with format.com from WIN98SE, boot and type :

Format C:/s

Edit: You may have to use fdisk first, delete the NTFS partition, and create a new once before you format.