delpart.exe

TRYING to in install XPHome on new system.
Am having TOOOOOO many problems
so I'll start over.
In reading much on the web and MS I understand
that fdisk will not remove NTFS partitions and
to remove them I must use delpart.exe, then run fdisk.
Has anyone used "delpart.exe" to successfully remove
NTFS partitions AND still had a functioning hard drive?
I started to run delpart.exe but it's warning screen
threatens me with world destruction if I use it.
Specifically it says it "...could render your drive
inoperable...." I don't know how to interpret that.
Does that mean I wont be able to operate it AT ALL,or
it won't operate UNTIL I fdisk and reformat again?
Any ideas will be appreciated.
Xeno

Xeno Chauvin wrote:
TRYING to in install XPHome on new system.
Am having TOOOOOO many problems
so I'll start over.
In reading much on the web and MS I understand
that fdisk will not remove NTFS partitions and
to remove them I must use delpart.exe, then run fdisk.

No, you can delete any partition with fdisk as far as I know.
But you shouldn't need to be messing with any of that stuff. The XP
installation routine has its own partitioning functionality. You can
delete or create partitions right from the bootable XP CD.


-WD

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:17:17 GMT, "Xeno Chauvin"
wrote:

TRYING to in install XPHome on new system.
Am having TOOOOOO many problems
so I'll start over.
In reading much on the web and MS I understand
that fdisk will not remove NTFS partitions and
to remove them I must use delpart.exe, then run fdisk.
Has anyone used "delpart.exe" to successfully remove
NTFS partitions AND still had a functioning hard drive?
I started to run delpart.exe but it's warning screen
threatens me with world destruction if I use it.
Specifically it says it "...could render your drive
inoperable...." I don't know how to interpret that.
Does that mean I wont be able to operate it AT ALL,or
it won't operate UNTIL I fdisk and reformat again?
Any ideas will be appreciated.
Xeno


Delpart is if you want to destroy an NTFS partition and go back to
something like FAT32. If you are staying with NTFS you don't need to
run Delpart. I've used Delpart once and had no problems once I
reformatted to FAT32.