On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Chad R. Henry wrote:
> Now the damn thing will not let me remove the extended partition. Under
> Fdisk is list the type as ext, but when I go to delete it then says to
> remove logical drives first. I go to remove logical drive and it says
> there are none!!!
This is a known bug (or "feature", if you ask Microsoft) in their FDISK
program. It has a serious dislike for any partition type that didn't come out
of Redmond. I've seen such "foreign" partitions actually cause Microsoft's
FDISK to lock up completely when invoked. The fact that you simply cannot
delete a Linux partition is above average.
First, try doing a "Delete non-DOS partition". On rare occasions, that has
been known to work.
If that does not do the trick, you will have to use a different partitioning
tool. I think the "Windows NT Disk Administrator" (WINDISK.EXE) program will
allow you to delete a Linux partition. As will Partition Magic, Partition
Commander, or other commercial partition-management utilities. Finally, Linux
partitioning programs should be able to handle this. You might try booting a
Linux distribution installer, going far enough to delete all partitions (be
sure to give it a chance to save the changes), and then cancel the install
(i.e., reboot).
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Tony Lambiris wrote:
> I would just do it the good-old fashioned way... I would run mke2fs
> /dev/hda, when it informs you its the entire disk, you say yes, fire up
> fdisk, and create the fat32 partition.
That's kind of weird. I would recommend instead zeroing the partition
table, e.g.,
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1024 count=1
which will write zeros to the first 1024 bytes of the disk, making it appear
brand new to any OS software. (Writing a filesystem like that may confuse
programs which try to interpret it as a partition table.)
Hope this helps,
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