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Getting rid of NT partition when re-installin Win95?

Hello,
I have a Micron P200 that I previously had set up to load either Win95 or Win NT Workstation 4.0. I now want to use this computer only for Win 95. It has a 4 gig SCSI hard drive. 2 gigs where set up as drive C, and 2 as drive D. Win95 was on drive C, and Win NT on drive D. When I wanted to start over installing just Win 95, I formatted the hard drive (from DOS prompt). Drive C formatted fine, but drive D only yielded about 50 Megs of storage after formatting. When I then went ahead to install Win 95, a screen appeared saying that Drive D contains an NT partition which will not be available (or words to that effect).

How can I "recover" the nearly 2 gigs of hard drive storage from Drive D? Preferably, I would like to do this without having to wipe everything out and reinstall win 95 again. But, if that is the only way, I will do that.

Thanks in advance,
Stephen Pintauro
spintaur@zoo.uvm.edu

kamilo

Have you tried doing a "FDISK" to delete the old partition. Also, are you using Win95 OSR2 or the eariler version. If you are using the old version, you will not be able to see all 4 gigs of hard drive space. Tell me if the FDISK works.
Good Luck.

Kamilo

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Thanks Yin. I will give it a try tonight (this computer is at home).