> I am trying to install win98 on a used IBM drive. > I believe the drive had win NT on it before. > When i start the installation win98 balks saying that there's no > partition.... > > I've also tried NAV to check and i get the message that the > mbr is locked by a disk utility. > > How do i remove this partition? > Is it even a good idea to do it? > > Thanks I've come across this problem myself, and all I did was repartition and reformat with fdisk from whatever boot disk for the os you are going to install. Windows 3.X, and 9X will not recognize an NTFS partition, that's the only reason you get the error.\ > James Frey Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html