vortex Posted November 24, 2001 Share Posted November 24, 2001 just trying to confirm some facts... right now im using seagate barracuda with 3 partition. each is NTFS format. a friend of mine told me that if i delete the 1st NTFS partition on my Seagate harddisk during Win2k/XP installation. ive just killed the harddisk!. he said i cand use the hard disk anymore and have to send it to the dealer to get a new drive. is this true?. if so, why does this happen? any ideas? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miran Posted November 24, 2001 Share Posted November 24, 2001 No man.. Relax. That's not true. All you have to do is recreate the partition - which you can do from the Windows 2000/XP CD-ROM boot install. Or, use a DOS/Windows 9x/ME boot disk and run FDISK. This lets you partition your PC - however only using FAT 32.. If you need help on how to run FDISK let me know. :) Were you duel-booting with the other partitions, btw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vortex Posted November 24, 2001 Author Share Posted November 24, 2001 no. im not dual booting. :) its just that i got worrried if i need 2 convert my NTFS back to FAT32, it would screw up my hard disk. cause he said he tried to convert back to FAT32 and it didnt work. :s anyway, yesterday i wanted to update my tnt2 ultra' s bios and i had to reebot to DOS. But XP doesn't have boot in dos mode option. :( so i created a disk with boot option using XP's floppy format tool. unfortunately after i boot using the disk, none of my hard drive is identified. :o so i had to convert one of my partition back to FAT32 and put the bios in it and boot again. i used the win98 startup disk and the partition is found and i updated the bios. ( i know i could have used the floppy drive to update the bios) I just wanted to try if my hard drive works. now my quiestion is... how can i create a bootdisk that will identify my NTFS partition? thanx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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