Formatting Partitions Under W2K

[MikeOtis]

I currently have 2 FAT 32 partitions on my hard drive. They were both created using Fdisk from within DOS.

Initially Win98 was the only OS in the drive, but I later added W2K to the first partition

So both OS?s are on the C: partition

I have recently made a bootable, slipstreamed copy of W2K Pro +SP2, when I enter the W2K setup screen it does not give me the option of formatting C:, it only asks if I want to delete a partition?not if I want to format it.

And my question is this: if I delete the C: partition in order to do a clean install, will it allow me to recreate it without affecting my data on drive D: ?

I am thinking the answer is yes, but I am pretty new to the W2K world, so any clarification would be greatly appreciated.

 

[aUt0eXebat]

yes it will, delete the C drive, and it will say unallocated space, then create a partition of any size you want, just DONT delete the D partition

 

[yazz]

yup!
aUt0eXebat is correct on that. just remember not to delete your other partition. i would recommend doing with during the win2k setup. just delete the partition when in the win2k installation routine and then create a new NTFS partition for the first partition on the harddrive. try to avoid the fat32 to NTFS conversion. it is a waste of time and may not work.

 

[TungFree]

yazz
I am not clear on whether you mean installing in fat32 then converting fat32 win2k os to NTFS is useless or what do u mean there?
Partition magic alows u to format a partition in many File systems from the get go b4 instalations but not on huge partitions ( I had a problem with my last partition where i will be editing full films a 70 gig partition refused to format in NTFS I had to do that after I installed windows 2kAdvanced server Pro to an NTFS partition nut I was able to create a 5 gig fat32 for win98 a 15 gig for programs for both win 2k and win98 in fat32 and a backup of 25 gig in Fat32 all done in partition magic except the 70 gig one.