Been there, done that!!
I had fun with this after a crashed install, because I couldn't remove the
partition, and couldn't get back in to use Linux fdisk!! I didn't have a
rescue disk either. Fdisk on Windows can see the Linux extended partition,
as an extended partition seems to be the same under any OS, but it couldn't
see the ext2 partitions inside the extended partition, so couldn't delete
them, and generated the error messages you're seeing.
The thing I did have was Partition Magic on Windows. Although it didn't know
what the partitions were, it did delete them pretty thoroughly. If you
haven't got Partition Magic, see if you can get hold of an evaluation copy
for a short time.
Of course, you could always go the drastic route and low level format your
drive. Go on, live dangerously!!
----- Original Message -----
From: Lionel Barrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 2:26 AM
Subject: [newbie] Uninstalling Linux
Hey guys, my question is: how exactly do you uninstall Red Hat 6.1. I
tried creating a win98 boot disk, booting it and running fdisk /mbr but all
that did was give win98 back control of the booting sequence. I tried using
fdisk to delete the partition but it said that logical drives were in
existence. When I tried to delete this logical drive, it said none were
there. I tried again to delete the extended partition but still with no
luck. How can I take Red Hat off completely. I have another 1 gig drive now
that I want to put Mandrake 6.1 one on so I wanna blank my 3.2 gig hd to put
win98 on and then put M 6.1 on the 1 gig. How do I get Red HAT off???!!!!!
Thanks in advance Lionel
