Try booting from the Win98 CD. It'll place some system tools in a RamDrive. If you only have one hard drive and FAT partition, then the RamDrive should be the D:\ drive. In there you'll find the good ol' DOS FDISK - you can use it to delete your partitions.
HTH Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Graham Monk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 4:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Please help me get rid of windows Its Fat 32 I think, I have Win98 and Win95 discs available Ian Bruseker wrote: >Hmm, Yast2, ever the helpful. > >Ok, another question, what kind of partition is it? FAT32, NTFS? > >Another question: I assume since this machine has no floppy that you are >booting from the CD. Do you have another bootable CD available (Win2000, >another Linux distro, OpenBSD) that has a disk partitioning component to its >installer that could get rid of the partition for you? > >Ian > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Graham Monk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 3:52 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Please help me get rid of windows >> >> >>Yast2 said >>"There was an error resizing your windows partition, >>please reboot and use some other method to resize" >> >>or words to that effect. >> >>Sebastian, this machine does not have a floppy. >>G >> >>Ian Bruseker wrote: >> >> >> >>>Graham, >>> >>>Question: Did you get any form of error message regarding deleting the >>>Windows partition, or did it just not do it? >>> >>>Ian >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: Graham Monk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>>>Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 3:40 PM >>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>Subject: (clug-talk) Please help me get rid of windows >>>> >>>> >>>>Hi All >>>>Trying to get SUSE 7.3 Pro on a thinkpad 770 >>>>After 2 days of windows grief I want to dump windows >>>>Altogether, no dual boot. >>>>SUSE is unable to resize or delete the windows partition. >>>>I formated the drive but of course it didnt get rid of the partition. >>>>I would use FDISK but this machine doesnt have a floppy. >>>>Its been a long week so I am probably forgetting something >>>>basic but cant see how to proceed. >>>>Any Pointers Please? >>>>Graham >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > >
