Guest Andy Green Posted November 25, 2002 Report Share Posted November 25, 2002 I'm a total newbie to Linux, experimenting with it stand-alone (no other opsys present) on a 6gig hdd. Sometimes I need to use this hdd for other purposes, so then I want to free it up completely. Now I find, with Win98 fdisk, that I can delete the non-DOS partitions, but Linux has also made an extended dos partition, which Win98 fdisk says contains logical drives ... but when I try to delete those, there aren't any there to delete -- contradictory. So: how do I delete this ext dos partition? I've tried " fdisk /mbr " but nothing changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted November 30, 2002 Report Share Posted November 30, 2002 If you have Partition Magic on floppies, you can delete and reformat with that. If not, you can download the hard drive utility from the manufacturer's website and do a low level format on the drive which will zero fill every sector of the drive. This wipes the disk completely clean and you will then be able to partition the disk with windows fdisk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andy Green Posted December 4, 2002 Report Share Posted December 4, 2002 Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted December 4, 2002 Report Share Posted December 4, 2002 You can also put Mandrake Cd1 in and do an expert install. When you get to the partitioning screen, hit the clear button and then create a new partition that you need. Attempt to format the partition and this will save the new partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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