Dos fdisk won't detect linux created logical partitions.
Use Linux fdisk to find and delete them.
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> 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
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> 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
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