Need installing help

[mussels]

I am trying to wipe out a hard drive and install windows 98. The computer is a PIII 550. with Windows NT on it. I want to switch over to Win98. When booting with a boot disk the C: drive is not accessible. It says "cannot access a network drive". I went into FDISK and found there to have 2 partitions, both NTFS. I realize, that this is why it wont read as it should be FAT32. Question. How do I switch over to FAT32 and reformat the hard drive. (The hard drive is an IBM). Is there a site I could get an IBM disk manager.? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
I have tried a full format and it wont do it.

[enviroko]

Hmm, are you getting an a:\ prompt when you boot with your 98 boot disk?

[mussels]

Yes I am getting an a:\ prompt and I am able to access FDISK and whatever else there is on the floppy.The c:\ prompt appears but is not accessible. The D and E drives come up as a bad command, and the prompts are not accessible

[ski]

Try these steps: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:m_fW9QqHTPwC:support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q103/0/49.asp+fdisk+windows+nt&hl=en

[pentachris]

I wonder if I'm missing something here...

You want to delete the NTFS drives and create a FAT drive (or drives) to install 98, correct? I believe "3" is the option to delete existing drives using FDISK. Deleting a drive just removes the reference to it from the Master Boot Record (MBR), so it doesn't matter that it's NTFS. (Although I've never actually done this - can somebody back me up or clue me in?)

Then you'd proceed as if it were a clean drive - create your partition(s), restart, and format.

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[mussels]

Thanks to everyone for replying. I took theadvice and i was successful. Pentachris you were right on. Thanks.