is there a way i can delete an NTFS partition while i am in WIN98?

[DinoGucci]

i have an 8 GIG drive. partitioned to 2 gig and 6 gig.
the 2 gig is FAT32 and 6 gig is NTFS. FDISK wont let me know to delete the 6 gig partition. i go to in fdisk to delete the logical drive in the extended partition, it tells me there is no logical drives. so i go to delete the extended partition, it tells me i cant delete the extended partition without deleted the logical drive!!! i was wat the hell. is there any other way or program i can use to delete the NTFS partition or reformat it while i am in win98 other than FDISK? thanks for the help.

 

[drag]

You should never try to fdisk stuff directly from windows. It may seem like it works fine but you have a 10% chance of seriously @#$#ing things up.

Make a bootdisk and fdisk it from dos mode. Becarefull as to not delete your primary partition!!!

To make a simple bootdisk try this with a floppy in drive a:

goto --> startmenu ---> run... ----> type: command (or cmd for post 98 0S's) ---> on the dos prompt type: format a: /s

then copy fdisk.exe from the c:/windows/command folder to the a: drive and reboot.

once it boots into the floppy disk run fdisk from there you may have better luck. If it doesn't you will have to probably use a 3-party app to solve you problem. You can try going to microsoft's knowledge center and do a search for NTFS with win98 selected for a OS. Otherwise search for it on google.

I know it's possible to delete ntfs from win98, however I don't remember exactly how..

Ps. If you wanto format stuff from Boot floppy then copy format.com from c:/windows/command folder

 

[lorlabnew]

Get yourself PartitionMagic (ver 7.x is out now); best tool for these things; you can do all kinds of stuff with partitions, incl. resizing, converting etc. you name it... well worth the money.