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I am upgrading from 98 to 2K. I put the disk in and it runs.
When I go to delete the partition that has the old 98, I can not create another partition for the Win2K nor can I go in and manually create it.

Ideas?

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What exact error do you get when you try to create the new partition?

have you:

- booted from a floppy which has the fdisk program on it
- run fdisk from there and deleted the partition
- written your changes
- rebooted
- tried the Win2k install again

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Blue do this, you probably have one partition. That meaning your system files are on it (Win2k-PreLoading) you can't just break the partition I believe so you need to upgrade once you’re in the OS then get like Partition Magic or use Computer Management to create and make new partitions.

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