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[fenelon]

hi l have two drives on my computer 80gb and 20gb I have installed windows xp on my 80 and windows98 second edition on my 20..I disconnect one drive when using the other just in case of a conflict...but wndows 98 C drive in propertys it tells me that there is 486mb of used space and 1.5gb of free space..its a 20gb drive how can I start over again and wipe the drive clean? and do a new installation? I must have done something wrong the first time...thks Jim:hmm:

[jmtjet]

Here's a link for using Fdisk to partition and format a drive;
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/howto/ata_fdisk_format_sys.html
It's for a Seagate drive, but it's the same for all drives.

If you know your drives manufacturer you can download their tools for partitioning and formatting. They usually work a little faster than MS DOS Fdisk.

One question; are you sure you don't have another partition with the rest of the drives volume? Just to be sure look in "My Computer" and see if you have another partition.

[fenelon]

thanks for your help l;ll try it.jim

[fenelon]

l got everything working went to the site you gave me l had a few problems but its working now.thanks for your help.Now that l have two os on my computer 98 and xp can l start up with both pluged in would there be a conflict??witch one would start up as master??jim

[wanker]

NO there would be a freakin option at startup dang