dear rajesh
its a common problem to delete ext2/ntfs partitions from dos/win9x
i use a dos based utility called delpart and it deletes the partitions
successfully
vish
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From: Rajesh Fowkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux India Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 9:18 PM
Subject: [LIH] removing linux partition
>Hi,
>
>At one of my friends place, he has got a dual boot machine with Windows98
and Red Hat Linux.
>Now he wants to dispose off the 6.4GB HDD. He removed the Linux partition
using Red Hat bootable CD(Disk Druid) and saved the Partition table entry.
>
>Now if he uses fdisk in dos to remove the extended partition he gets
message logical drives
>present and if he tries to delete logical drives it says no logical drives
exist. If he uses
>delete non-dos partition option he gets message that no non-dos partition
exist.
>
>How to permanantly delete the linux partition in this case so that entire
6.4GB space is available.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
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