On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am using a pentium MMX with 2.1 gb hard disk.Ipartitioned the
disk
> and loaded linux in one partition and dos in the windows 98 in the
other
> ....after some days b'coz of some reasons windows got crash as a result
of
> that I deleted the whole partition (win and linux )and formatted the
whole
> hard disk after formatting I made two partition 1)for primary dos with
> 1.2gb and 2)extented dos with remaining space.But When I am trying to
> delete the extented dos partition it is not getting deleted by saying
> "extented dos partition can not be deleted when logic drives exists"
..But
> I have deleted all logical drives an dfound that there exists no
logical
> drives ( even in display of partitions it says there is no logic drive
> exists )....Please tell me how to delete the extented dos partition in
this
> condition.
That doesn't sound like linux fdisk. If you are using micro$oft expect
insulting error messages. Linux fdisk should be willing to do any thing
you want that is physically possible.
> second problem is ...my hard disk shows around 3MB bad sectors
> while formatting ...I think these are software bad sectors only Please
tell
> me how to remove these bad sectors ........Or how to block it so that I
can
> load the software safely
> thanks in advance
>
That's an awful lot of bad sectors. If you are making a linux
filesystem you can tell it to check for and not use bad blocks with the
-c switch, or use badblocks -o to make a list of bad blocks, and pass it
to mke2fs with the -l option. For now, what you probably want is
mke2fs -c <device name>
or
mkfs -t ext2 -c <device name>
where <device name> is its name according to linux fdisk.
Lawson
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