Hi

I tring to automate a system recovery script but I am having problems formatting a partition.

I have a NTFS partition and using the command mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hda1 I have formatted it as FAT32 and copied some new files to it (namely i386 from XP CD)

BUT, when I restart the PC using a Win98 boot disk it cannot see the partition. FDisk (DOS version) sees the partion as NTFS.

In knoppix, QTPARTED sees the partition as FAT32 BUT sfdisk -l shows the following info:-
boot start end cyls block Id system
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 1025- 1026 8241313+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

What have I done wrong? I was hoping not to have to delete the partition, just reformat it, but maybe I can't?

Many thanks
AlanC