FAT/NTFS Partition struggle

[alphavega7]

After installing Windows 2000 professional, my hard drive partioned itself in two. A 1.9GB in FAT and 40GB in NTFS.

I want to departition and have everything back as one drive, and get rid of this blood sucking NTSF format which causes all the probelm and does not want to be deleted. Even totoally deleting the Win2000 System will not do any good.

I've heard the only way is to Debug in MS DOS, but how exactly can I do that? What are the commands for that?

Or is there any other way to get rid of this NTSF partition and get this drive all backtogether in one peice and stop making the compuer beleive it has 2 drives?

If deleting the partition with the win 2000 Console, this will only make this section of the drive Unalocated and unusable, but will still not get rid of this partion.

It is quite a puzzle. I backup all my files and do not not care about erracing everything and formating, in fact, this is what I want to do.

If anyone knows the answer to that one, you are a genius in Compuer fixing. :)

David Bryce

[MishY]

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MishY

[alphavega7]

Thanks a lot to Damhna and MIshY for your great help.

Deleting the NTSF partition with FDISK as sugested, does not solve the problem but there is a way to solve it.

The NTSF partition is not a Non_DOS Partition, but is what is called a EXTENDED DOS. Therefore, deleting this partition by selcting "delete Non_DOS partition" with FDISK, results in an error message displaying "Partition selected is not a Non_DOS".

If this EXTENDED_DOS partitoin is deleted, it will sort of delete the partition from your view and usage, but will leave this 41GB or whichever amount, as unalocated Space, making this partition totoally unusalbe. It still won't solve the problem because the computer will still think it has 2 drives and will not merge the drives back together.

Fortunately there is a way, thanks to you Mishy and Damhna, the "Ultimate Boot Disk Utilty" which you sugested can select this EXTENDED_DOS partitoin and convert it into FAT. Once it is in FAT, it is easy to remerge these two section into one FAT drive.

Microsot though, should have thought of something to solve this problem, because I'm probably surely not the only one to have come accross such an issue.

David Bryce,
alphavega7@yahoo.com