How to format a NTFS partition?

[<Grisu4>]

Hi,

Just got my board from the RMA back. Now I need to format my boot partition (NTFS) and do a clean install of win2k.

But how can I format? There's no chance to boot with a win9x start-disk and format it, because win9x can't see NTFS .....

What shall I do? Delete all the files from Win?

Hope you know help ....

[Sony]

Make a Boot disk of your OS and put FDisk on it then just FDisk it unless you forgot you admin password in that case your screwed and there is no way to get it off that I know of, but i'm sure there is a way.

[<Grisu4>]

Wouldn't it suffice to start with the CD? When I try to make a boot disk, Win2k makes 4 of them ...

So will I have to make the 4 disks and copy FDisk (where can I find it?) on it?

[turd]

yes u can make the 4 boot disks from the cd just

put in floppy have 3 more ready
put in 2kcd type <cd drive>:\bootdisk\makeboot a:

but y bother you can boot into your 2kcd? then do it all from there just follow the setup instructions, delete what exists, setup your partition and how u want it formatted, format then install

[Maddman]

make a bootdisk with fdisk on it. boot from the bootdisk. run fdisk and make sure you are on the drive you want to re-format. The ntfs partition will show up as a nondos partition. That is the partition to delete then repartition the drive and format it.

[<Grisu4>]

And if I do this - will it leave my D: partition untouched, because there are files I need on it.

It's a 30 Gig drive, C(NTFS): 10GB, D(FAT32):20GB

So just the normal way - start with a win9x boot-disk and launch fdisk, which will recognize the NTFS partition.

I guess I will have to convert to NTFS later via the 2k installation.

Just wondered if I need NTFS - is NTFS better for stability, or is it only the advantage of safeness (?).