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.

Tom Mayer

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.
>
> Don Penlington
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