If you have Windows XP in a dual-boot site with Windows 95 / Windows 98, utilize the Fdisk to delete a logical drive with the File Allocation Table (FAT) file system, and then reboot Windows XP, you may no long look logical drives within the Logical Disk Manager.

This action may happen if you do the following:

• You build up your PC to dual-boot between Windows XP and Windows 95 with a main FAT partition as drive C.
• In Windows XP, you configure two logical drives:
a. Drive D using NTFS -and-
b. Drive E using the FAT file system
• When you run Fdisk, you can view only the logical drive using the FAT file
• When you attempt to delete drive D, you delete the NTFS logical drive instead.
CAUSE:

Fdisk cannot identify NTFS logical drives in an absolute partition, and therefore deletes the NTFS logical drive if it happens before the logical drive using the FAT file system.

RESOLUTION:
Use Logical Disk Manager to make alter to logical drives when you have logical drives using both NTFS and the FAT file system. Fdisk is not carry for use in this configuration.

To open Disk Manager, perform the following steps:

• Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Manage.

• In the Computer Management MMC window, click Disk Management in the tree under Storage. The Logical Disk Manager will show, showing all existing disks and their partition information.

As one of the primary partition is set to NTFS, fdisk partition to identify as a non-DOS partition in Windows 95 and identify the partition as NTFS in Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2) and Windows 98.