I also have had troubles with this as well. If you are using, or trying to
use rather, the Microsucks fdisk, don't bother. It doesn't work. As for the
fdisk packaged with Linux, I have not had much luck there either.

Usually, after an hour or so of pain and agony, I simply low-level format
the hard drive and then re-fdisk it using the Windblows fdisk so set up my
Windblows partition only and re-format and install...

If you don't have a low-level formatter, send me an e-mail at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will send you a copy of the one I have.

Good luck,
Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Nyal
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 12:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [EUG-LUG:17] Q: Help with a hard drive



I'm writing in the hopes that one of the Gurus can give me a hand.  I
just installed RH 6.1 on my Windows 98 box.  The install went fine and
everything was working fine.  Unfortunately I wound up deleting 98
(Gotta have it for work) and wound up with an EXT DOS partition that
fdisk wont delete (Because it says there are logical drives in the
partition.  Do any of you Gurus know how I can wipe the HD clean?  I
also tried using the Disk Druid in the install program to no avail.  I'm
going to put Linux on a different HD but I'd like to salvage the one.
Any and all help is most appreciated.

Nyal R Cammack

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