by Zen Master 27 on Tue Dec 03, 2002 9:41 pm
Sorry, glock20rocks, but you are mistaken when you say "XP/NT can only install if there's a FAT32 partition on the drive."
Windows 2000 and XP absolutely CAN be installed on a drive formatted with NTFS -- that's why they give you the choice during initial setup. And as far as Windows NT goes, it cannot even SEE FAT32 partitions, let alone be installed on one. (You were on the right track though, since Windows NT needs to be installed on a FAT (4GB max) partition and converted to NTFS after install.)
Voltron, again assuming that the drive is not dead, if you're still having trouble accessing/deleting any of the partitions you might want to consider booting off of a Windows 98 SE startup disk and running:
fdisk /mbr
at the DOS prompt. That should blow away and rebuild the master boot record for you, and hopefully allow you to manage the disk however you need.
Regards,
Steve