Win98 and Hard Disc Partitions Friday, October 19, 2007 at 9:01 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Alan (16 messages posted) I have a similar problem to that recounted by Jonathan (see http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t1189512931/) I too have an unwanted partition and wonder whether I can safely use FDISK to remove it. After an attempt to install Win98SE on top of a previous Win98 installation I find I have a second partition on one of my physical hard discs, a Western Digital 40GB drive. The disc now has a 1st partition which FDISK says is "non DOS", about 2GB, with no logical drive letter; and a 2nd partition which FDISK says is "PRI DOS", about 4MB, and assigned the logical drive letter D:. The Win98SE installation failed because the version I have is not for upgrade but new installation only so I re-installed Win98. Now Win98 lists a D: drive in Windows Explorer or My Computer but cannot access it. DOS cannot access it either. I have run Seagate disc diagnostic tools which find no error in the disc nor its file structure (FAT32) and correctly reports about 18GB used on the disc. I have also run a freeware utility called "Readntfs" which reports that there is an unused second partition of 8MB on my Primary Master drive! FDISK does not find this one. So, will it be safe to delete the unwanted partition on my Western Digital drive, and if I do this will I regain the ability to access the data on the second partition? Is it safer to use (say) Boot It Next Generation to delete the partition, rather than FDISK? Incidentally, to answer a question posed by gewg, 7Tools Partition Manager demo version allows all functions to be tried out in a "virtual pre-execution" but not actually applid to make physical changes to the disc (according to the information shown when dowloaded, installed and launched). Responses to this message: re: Win98 and Hard Disc Partitions (Ed: Friday, October 19, 2007 at 9:54 am) re: Win98 and Hard Disc Partitions (bob wells: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 12:03 am) Resolved - Win98 and Hard Disc Partitions (Alan: Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 2:22 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Win98 and Hard Disc Partitions (Alan: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 9:01 am) re: Win98 and Hard Disc Partitions (Ed: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 9:54 am) re: Win98 and Hard Disc Partitions - more details (Alan: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 10:50 am) re: Win98 and Hard Disc Partitions - more details (Ed: Tue, Oct 23, 2007, 10:18 am) re: Win98 and Hard Disc Partitions (bob wells: Tue, Oct 23, 2007, 12:03 am) Resolved? - Win98 and Hard Disc Partitions (Alan: Tue, Oct 23, 2007, 9:04 am) Resolved - Win98 and Hard Disc Partitions (Alan: Sat, Oct 27, 2007, 2:22 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum