How do I remove NT from a FAT partition?
John Savill
January 8, 2000
1 Min Read
A. If you have NT installed on a FAT partition then youwill need to remove the NT operating system files and the NT boot loader. Toremove the files and the boot loader boot a MS-DOS disk with the deltreeutility copied and perform the following:
C:
DELTREE WINNT
CD PROGRA~1
DELTREE WINDOW~1
CD
DEL NTLDR.
DEL NTDETECT.COM
DEL BOOT.INI
DEL PAGEFILE.SYS (this file may not be on the active partition depending onyour configuration)
DEL BOOTSECT.DOS
Boot up using a Win95 or DOS startup disk, and type SYS a: c:
Reboot
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