how do i remove NT Server 4.0 os

[ODBCERRORKING]

how do i remove nt 4.0 OS? is there some type of fdisk functionality? i am trying to put win 98 on this machine.

 

[epohl]

Exactly right, use fdisk and remove the partitions, then create a partition and reformat the drive fat32 using the format.exe file on the Win98 startup disk.

 

[Zorlod]

It depends. If you used a FAT partitions on your drive, you can just do a normal boot from a standard 98 floppy or even an old dos 6.2 disk and run fdisk if you want to redo partitions, or just format them if you dont mind keeping your current partition setup. After you fdisk/format, you can just load the drivers for your cdrom, and then run the setup.exe off of the 98 cdrom and you should be good to go.
If you have NTFS partitions however, you can use partition magic from power quest to redo the partitions and make them back into fat. A standard boot disk will not see a NTFS partition.

 

[epohl]

If you going to install Win98 I would definitely recommend using FAT32 as opposed to FAT16. Although you can convert it to FAT32 after you have installed 98.

 

[jaeddy]

FDISK will let you delete NTFS partitions, even if you launch it from a DOS boot disk.

One caveat: if you have NTFS logical drives on an extended DOS partition, FDISK will not let you delete the extended partition even if you launch NT first and remove the logical drives through Disk Manager. The only way to fix this is to launch an NT install and when you get to the part where you provide a location for the installation you can then delete the partitions. BUT you're still not finished yet. It may be necessary to use the NT install program to create a new partition in order to fully wipe out the old ones.

I have only run in to this problem when there were NTFS formatted logical drives on an extended partition. Very strange.

Personally, when I am doing things such as this I opt for using the HDD manufacturer's utility to do a low-level format- start with a clean slate as it were.

 

[bp1169]

A low level format will do the trick however, I usually do it by booting from the winnt cd and running the setup program up until the point it asks which drive you would like to install nt on. At that point you will also have the option of deleting the partitions and recreating new ones as well as formatting them with A FAT file system or NTFS. Once the NT setup has formated the partitions I just remove the cd and power the machine off and boot and proceed as normal.