HELP. INeed to remove Windows NT Workstation 4.0

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I recently purchased an old laptop from my company and it had windows NT 4.0
workstation on it. I found that if I removed the Windows NT operating
system, and replace it with Win 98 SE then the laptop will provide more
options.

I've tried everything including trying to reformat the hard drive but I am
unable to do it.

Can someone help with easy step by step directions. I don't have the NT
disks to create a boot disk

Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Pete

 

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To wipe the drive, some ways include; boot a win98 startup disk, run fdisk
and delete all partition information found (as long as NTFS is primary). Or
boot the Windows NT CD-Rom or setup disks and when you get to the point,
delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions found, then abort the
install. Or use a utility named delpart. Once removed you can boot the Win98
CD-Rom or restore CD-Rom to start your install.

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt31/i386/reskit.exe

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"PeteyP" wrote:
|I recently purchased an old laptop from my company and it had windows NT
4.0
| workstation on it. I found that if I removed the Windows NT operating
| system, and replace it with Win 98 SE then the laptop will provide more
| options.
|
| I've tried everything including trying to reformat the hard drive but I am
| unable to do it.
|
| Can someone help with easy step by step directions. I don't have the NT
| disks to create a boot disk
|
| Any insight would be appreciated.
| Thanks.
| Pete