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Offline Colani1200

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Re: Question about reformatting a PC drive...
« on: September 05, 2011, 09:43:10 AM »
DELLs command line tool extpart.exe can do the trick in a running Windows XP. (Delete the OS/2 partition first)

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R64398&formatcnt=2&fileid=83929
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Re: Question about reformatting a PC drive...
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2011, 04:18:19 PM »
Quote from: mongo;658026
Diskpart will only work if the partition is NTFS. On a machine that was set to dual boot with OS/2, I wouldn't count on the XP partition being NTFS.


Good time to convert it then.
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