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i was wondering, is there a way to format a NTFS windows NT hard drive
USING DOS or another NON windows xp/2k disk
before the operating system starts up?
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Um yes. But if you do that Say bye bye to WinNt.
If you want to Dual Boot your Best bet would be to use partition magic.

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It depends what kind of filesystem you want to use after the fact. If you are looking to use NTFS, why would you not want to use a windows disk?
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he's looking to just Whipe the NTFS off the system. But was having problems Useing Fdisk.

But not sure if he's back from work to Do so
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