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I have a hard drive that has either winXP Home or winXP Pro on it. I can't fdisk it or reformat it because I get the error "Incorrect Dos Version". How do I get it where I can FDISK it and put FAT or FAT32 back on it? All I want, is to get it where I can put Win 98 or Win 2000 on it, and do away with the XP that is on the hard drive. This is a drive I bought, it is not in a machine.

Any help apppreciated. Thanks!

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If you are talking about the Maxtor drive listed in your system specs, I'd suggest using the MaxBlast 3 utility to remove any partitions on the drive, recreate a partition(s), and format with your choice of file system.

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Reply to Toejam31

Toejam31 ,

Thanks for the quick reply. Yes it is the Drive in question (Maxtor Diamondmax Plus8). You make it sound easy.

Thanks again for the valuable info,
Howard

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You can also use FDisk to delete it. You have to choose delete 'Non-Dos partition', but I'd rather partition and format it by WinXP CD or 3rd party software such as Partition Magic.

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Just download a dos, 95, or 98 boot floppy. You can boot off that and delete/format the partition.

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not with NTFS

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<A HREF="http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/" target="_new">http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/</A>
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Yes, it does. In FDisk, it'd show Non-DOS partition (also applied for other OS partition such as Linux's).

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I like the Ultimate Book Disk Project. I'll download myself a copy me thinks!

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