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New2Computers

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A few weeks ago when I built my pc, I installed windows98 on a 10gb partition as drive C, and 30gb partition as drive D with windows 2000 on it...

I decided 2000 wasn't worth bothering with as 75% of the things I do on my pc work poorly in windows 2000, so I decided to repartition my hard drive to make it only 1 40gb partition...

Boy what a pain..

Fdisk will not let me touch the windows 2000 partition, which is set to be the extended dos partition. When I try to delete it, it says I cannot delete it while logical drives exist..when I try to delete logical drives it says no logical drives defined..

I'm able to format the C: drive, but I cannot format D:, I get some other error which I can't remember off the top of my head..

Please reply, I really want to get my computer up and running again...its just sitting here right now as I can't use it while it is in its current state...

I'm about to give up on it, earlier today my cpu fan died.. its less than a week old and I could smell smoke coming from my pc by the time I found out.. CPU still seems to be working.. I have case fans blowing directly on the heat sink right now, which is to my amazement keeping it cooler then before with a fraction of the noise but i guess that isn't the point..
 
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dowxp

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yes. i ahve had that stupid cyclic behavior before. i had to use win2k setup and delete the partitions within the setup program. its quick and fast. it should work. pm me if it doesnt.
 
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New2Computers

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Now my computer is locking up at the "verifying DMI Pool Data..." screen, man I hate this garbage, I have no clue what that means or how to fix it..

Help! :(
 
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New2Computers

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I now have windows 98 up and running on the C: partition... windows 98 isn't even recognizing the win2k partition...

Is there any other way to get rid of this win2k partition besides the windows 2000 set-up?
 
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dowxp

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i once used a linux bootup disk and used its fdisk there.

basically. anything but fdisk. paritionmagic could do it. if u had the boot disk... =)

but can u get to booting to a floppy?
 
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Install Partition Magic in your Windows 98. It will be able to see the Win2k partition and fix it up for you. Give that a try. You won't need a boot disk or anything. Just install it. From there, it's pretty simple because everything is all nice and layed out.

Good luck!
 
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New2Computers

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I don't have partition magic, and if it is available for download I don't currently have access on that machine because windows 98 is giving me problems installing my network card..

I went to update drivers and then told it I have disk, then it started to install from the driver floppy, then it starts looking for files on the windows 98 cd? and it can't find any of them heh.
 
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Then I'd suggest waiting until your friend gets back with your Win2k disc. :( If you don't have Partition Magic, it's well worth the cash.

Good luck!
 
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