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removing hardrive partitions
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I have a computer with an 8 gig hard drive and no windows installed. The drive is partitioned into 4 drives and windows 98 will not install. How can i get rid of the partitions.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I take it you have a Dell? They have a weird legacy habit of splitting everything into 2Gb partitions (such as the rather comical split of a 36Gb into 18 2Gb paritions that I saw recently)..
Repartitioning can be a real pain, but the long and short of it is to use a bootdisk with FDisk to delete all existing partitions and then whack on a new one that fills the disk - remember to use FAT32 rather than FAT16
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