Moving to LIH, the appropriate forum: On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Abbas Asif spewed into the ether: > hi > i wanted to delete my linux partitions as i want to throughly > dedicate my 1 HDD to windows and the other HDD to linux.so booted > through a bootable red hat 6.2 cd and run disk druid.it deleted all > of them and saved the changes to partition table.but when again i run > disk druid it is again showing those partitions.Someone told me to > use linux fdisk,i run linux cd in rescue mode and tried fdisk but it > is not able to delete it. i write the following at bash and get the > output: > bash# fdisk -l /dev/hda > unable to open /dev/hda > > bash# fdisk -d /dev/hda > invalid option --d. > > please tell me what should i do. > disk druid is showing the following output > /dev/hda1 win 95FAT 32 > /dev/hda5 linux native > /dev/hda6 linux native > /dev/hda7 linux native > > Do tell me how can i successfully delete these partitions. > when i run windows fdisk it shows one pri-dos partition and the other > ext-dos partition. help me. > Abbas Boot into linux rescue. fdisk /dev/hda :d Delete in reverse order (7,6,5,2) Write to disk using w. quit fdisk #sync #sync reboot. That should do it. Devdas Bhagat -- The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ---------------------------------------------- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose. Violations of the rules of this list will result in stern action.
