"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: > In Dos when I worked for a school system all you had to type was fdisk > C:/ ( maybe C>:/ been a while) and your machine was toast.
Yes, but to FDISK C: you have to navigate the menu system, and pass the (rather flimsy) safeguards. Run FDISK, select 3 to delete a partition and hit ENTER, select 1 to delete the primary partition, select 1 again, enter the volume name exactly as it reads, then hit yes. If there are extended partitions, then you have to delete the logical drives first (and enter their volume names as well), then delete the extended partition, THEN delete the primary partition. Hardly a simple thing to do by accident. Even THEN it's a trivial thing to restore the partition table. -- jesus X [ Booze-fueled paragon of pointless cruelty and wanton sadism. ] email [ jesusx @ who.net ] web [ http://burntelectrons.com ] [ Updated April 29, 2001 ] tag [ The Universe: It's everywhere you want to be. ] warning [ War doesn't determine who is right, war determines who is left. ]
