Formating my harddrive 1

[jfarrell]

Due to a virus I have to fdisk and reformat my hard drive. Norton anti virus gives messages that a virus is on my harddrive. None of the executables files will open including Norton. So I will reformat. The harddrive a C: drive and a D: drive with windows 98. I want to combine the C: and D: into one drive. When I do an option in fdisk to display the partitions it only shows the C: Can someone give me a procedure for the fdisk and reformat. Many thanks.
Jack

 

[electronicsfreak]

Im not completely sure I understand you but im going to take a gander and see if im reading it right. If c and d are actually one drive but are partitioned into 2 drives then delete the partitions and create a new one in place and then format. If one part is fat32 and the other partition is ntfs then you will have to use either windows xp cdrom or windows xp boot disc. Reason being windows 98 cant read ntfs. If im not reading your question right please try to explain more. Sorry if i read wrong.

 

[BaudKarma]

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[paparazi]

Use a Windows 98 boot disk and fdisk

As well as deleting primary dos partition, delete extended dos partions
Once all partitions are deleted make just one maximum size primary.

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[micker377]

To add to paparazi: also look (with f-disk) to see if there is a "non-DOS" partition. This could be a NTFS partition, or a "restore" partition. If it is a restore partition, you may be in trouble!