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    I have a Win98-2 machine with one hard drive – fat 32. It has an extended partition with 2 logical drives, D and E. Both drives are empty. C contains all the software and data. I would like to eliminate drive E and format D to the full capacity of the extended partition. Can I do that with F-disk without messing up the C drive? C is a 14G partition and D is 2G, E is 500M.

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    • #662202

      I think the answer is yes!
      255867 – How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk
      will give you the ‘official’ instructions, plus you should find plenty of help at fdisk.com.

      Personally, I always felt a little uneasy using fdisk, but never managed to achieve the disaster I (unjustifiably) feared! Take your time, back-up the important stuff and shout if you need clarification on anything.

    • #663155

      Definately, go into fdisk and delete D: and e:, then make 1 partition, reboot and format… just make sure you DO NOT delete c:

      I would suggest try using fdisk while in 98, so it won’t let you delete the c: drive….

    • #663233

      Ok, thanks for the advice. I thought I could do that without deleting c. I’ve used F disk many times but never when I wanted to save anything. I am to cheap to buy Partition Magic just for this one time. I have an old version of PM but it doesn’t want to work with fat32. I’ll give it a try after reading the links provided. Thanks again.

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