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I have a rather interesting problem that I thought some of you might find humourous. Maybe you have some ideas on fixing it as well.
My problem is this. The dell Inspiron 7500 laptop I use for work originally came with Win NT 4.0 on it.
Of course, none of the software that I run will reliably work in NT (some won't run at all) so in desperation they installed Win98 in a dual boot
configuration on it. Much more stable then NT and I was able to do my work. However, it left me unable to boot WinNT. When I try I get the normal log in screen but it just locks up.
For reasons I do not understand, they partitioned my harddrive into 2 fat partitions and an NTFS partition, and made the NTFS partition the largest
chunk (probably since obviously no one would ever want to run anything other than windows NT).
Now I am running out of space for windows 98 stuff and need to load some more software but have run out of room.
Ideally, what I would like to do is just delete NT altogether since it is of no value at all to me, and somehow recover the space NT is using on my C drive and find some way to use the NTFS partition, maybe converting it to a fat 32 partition.
I get lots of strange looks when I ask them about this. Does anyone have any ideas other than just starting over altogether with a blank HDD and reloading win98? Maybe this is the best approach anyway since a good reformat and start over is not all that bad of a way to deal with windows every now and then anyway, but I am hoping to find a way of not having to reload all the
software I have installed.
Bob Peterson
My problem is this. The dell Inspiron 7500 laptop I use for work originally came with Win NT 4.0 on it.
Of course, none of the software that I run will reliably work in NT (some won't run at all) so in desperation they installed Win98 in a dual boot
configuration on it. Much more stable then NT and I was able to do my work. However, it left me unable to boot WinNT. When I try I get the normal log in screen but it just locks up.
For reasons I do not understand, they partitioned my harddrive into 2 fat partitions and an NTFS partition, and made the NTFS partition the largest
chunk (probably since obviously no one would ever want to run anything other than windows NT).
Now I am running out of space for windows 98 stuff and need to load some more software but have run out of room.
Ideally, what I would like to do is just delete NT altogether since it is of no value at all to me, and somehow recover the space NT is using on my C drive and find some way to use the NTFS partition, maybe converting it to a fat 32 partition.
I get lots of strange looks when I ask them about this. Does anyone have any ideas other than just starting over altogether with a blank HDD and reloading win98? Maybe this is the best approach anyway since a good reformat and start over is not all that bad of a way to deal with windows every now and then anyway, but I am hoping to find a way of not having to reload all the
software I have installed.
Bob Peterson