C: Drive formatting

Hi, there's a couple of ideas that MIGHT work. It sounds as though you have one operating system on a FAT32 partition and another on NTFS. So, either put in the floppy start-up disc from another OS e.g ME and 'fdisk', removing the FAT32 DOS partition and keep the NTFS or go to active patitions and delete the NTFS OR put in your XP disc and when it asks where you want to install.............select the partition you DONT want and press 'D' to delete it. Then using the options format and partition using the NTFS and reinstall. Hopefully you can maybe get somewhere with that. Good luck.........

It all depends on what you want to do. Without knowing how your computer is configured, it may or may not be a good idea.

If you want to completely erase everything, OS, data etc, then a simple Win98 boot disk will allow you to either FDISK and FORMAT (if it is NTFS) or just FORMAT (if it is FAT32).

The previous post suggest possibly deleting a partition. You don't want to delete or format whatever is your C: partition if you still want to boot your computer. That is where the boot information is kept, regardless of where the operating system is installed.

You can go to Bootdisk and download any number of boot disks, the W98 model will FDISK and format away anything on the C: partition.