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 my win9x disk cannot access the drive, the fdisk utility wont work. <br />
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i want to wipe the drive clean, and use it with fat32, not the ntfs system it has currently.
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my win9x disk cannot access the drive, the fdisk utility wont work.

i want to wipe the drive clean, and use it with fat32, not the ntfs system it has currently.

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Then there may be something wrong with the hard disk. If you do what I outlined it will remove the NTFS and allow you to partition it as FAT32. Did you try runnin the Kill Disk utility I posted?
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Then there may be something wrong with the hard disk. If you do what I outlined it will remove the NTFS and allow you to partition it as FAT32. Did you try runnin the Kill Disk utility I posted?

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Check that your BIOS picks up the HD properly, first. At its designated size...<br />
Then use fdisk from a win98 boot floppy or similar. It should at least see the HD being there, probably with an NTFS partition.<br />
/RID
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Check that your BIOS picks up the HD properly, first. At its designated size...
Then use fdisk from a win98 boot floppy or similar. It should at least see the HD being there, probably with an NTFS partition.
/RID

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If the BIOS sees the HD, then you need to run FDISK and use the DELETE NON-DOS Partition option to get rid of the NTFS partition, then make the new one as CrazyOne said above. 
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If the BIOS sees the HD, then you need to run FDISK and use the DELETE NON-DOS Partition option to get rid of the NTFS partition, then make the new one as CrazyOne said above.

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 i run win ME (sigh) which is a fat32 based os. i have a hdd in ntfs, i want to change the drive to fat32. the data on the drive does not matter. how do i go about this?
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 i run win ME (sigh) which is a fat32 based os. i have a hdd in ntfs, i want to change the drive to fat32. the data on the drive does not matter. how do i go about this?

ntfs to fat32

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