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Mkushinsky - 12 Oct 2003 12:57 GMT

I want to reformat my hard drive and reload Windows 98,
but I have the following problem:

When I run format from the startup diskette, I am told
that the drive I am formatting is a compressed drive. It
tells me to use the DRVSPACE tool (Drivespace) to format
the drive.

I enter Windows, and use the tool, however I am told that
my C: Drive is the startup drive and I cannot use the
format feature of DRVSPACE to reformat that drive.

I have tried to Uncompress the C: Drive, but I get an
error message saying that there is a problem with the
drive and to use Scandisk to repair the error.

I run Scandisk and there are no bad sectors found.

Is there any way I can reformat my hard drive?

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Bert Kinney - 12 Oct 2003 14:45 GMT

Hi

Boot with a startup disk and use Fdisk to remove the primary
partition then recreated it. Here are a couple of articles to guide you.
W98 Restore By Ron Badour MS MVP:
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html

How to Use Fdisk and Format to Partition/Repartition a Hard Disk
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q255/8/67.asp

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> I want to reformat my hard drive and reload Windows 98,
> but I have the following problem:
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> Is there any way I can reformat my hard drive?

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Ron Badour - 12 Oct 2003 15:36 GMT

Zap or Wipe freeware will remove all partition information so you can
start over fresh with FDisk. Download here:
http://www.microstorage.com/Harddriveinfo.htm#Date%20Life%20Guard

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Ron Badour, MS MVP W98 System
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

> I want to reformat my hard drive and reload Windows 98,
> but I have the following problem:
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> Is there any way I can reformat my hard drive?

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