I always used a program from IBM to "ZAP" or "WIPE" a drive
so I would not have to worry about what used to be on it...
Anything that did a "so called" lowlevel format might be just as good<??>
(Links not available right now...)

                                             Rick Glazier

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Mayer"
>I stand to be corrected, but I believe that using fdisk to create one or 
> more new partitions on the hard drive will eliminate the NTFS format. If 
> it does not, you pose a good question. Hopefully others will comment on 
> this.

> Don Penlington wrote:
>> Tom wrote:
>>> Using a bootable floppy disk with the utilities on it, fdisk and 
>>> format the HD for a clean install.>>
>>
>>
>> Will the Fdisk or Format commands on a standard W98 boot floppy 
>> reformat a NTFS hard drive?
>>
>> As dos does not see NTFS partitions, I'm wondering if these dos 
>> commands would run. If not, what's the easiest way to reformat an NTFS 
>> drive in the event that  you cannot get the XP disk to run or 
>> otherwise get into Windows?
>>
>> One big minus of NTFS is that you can't make much use of your old boot 
>> floppies.

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