Deleting segragations from a Hard Drive

Conor20

I was formatting my hard drive and reinstalling windows there and after I formatted, in DOS, I managed to put segragations into the hard drive (three 1 GB and one 4GB).

How do I get rid of them?


Thanks,
Conor.

Carnate

Originally posted by Conor20
I was formatting my hard drive and reinstalling windows there and after I formatted, in DOS, I managed to put segragations into the hard drive (three 1 GB and one 4GB).

How do I get rid of them?


Thanks,
Conor.

Segragations? Do you mean Partitions?

Creamy Goodness

it's kinda obivious he does really

BoB_BoT

2 ways to do this.

easy way, use a papartition magic pro or soemthing similar, this is a gui program that allows you to make/remove/alter partitions on your hard disk, under windows.

harder way, use fdisk on either a windows disk or windows boot disk. boot using the cd/floppy, don' t try to install windows yet, when you get to the command prompt type "fdisk.exe" remove all the partitions and create 1 new partition, problem solved.

Carnate

Obvious to whom?


Hes asking for help im just making sure its what i thought it was.

If you want to delete partitions, use a program like Partition

Magic, or partition commander.


Also what OS are you using? Win 95/98/2000/XP

Home/Professional ?

Dr Bolouswki

Correct me if I'm wrong (and I may well be) but isn't it true that partitions set up in FDISK can only be deleted by FDISK? I've never used partition magic or any of those fellows but I was working under the ssumption that they were ops system based so therefore could only change partitions set up in ops based applications?

Conor20

yeah I meant partitions,

its windows 98, Ill try the fdisk command,

thanks for the help.

Conor.

BoB_BoT

Originally posted by Killah_B
Correct me if I'm wrong (and I may well be) but isn't it true that partitions set up in FDISK can only be deleted by FDISK? I've never used partition magic or any of those fellows but I was working under the ssumption that they were ops system based so therefore could only change partitions set up in ops based applications?

yeap, you can now change the partition size and delete them with ease using a program like partition magic pro, it's handy and easy enough to do.

Dr Bolouswki

Man - I'm gonna get me some of that partition magic action so... what a delightful change from having to re-partition and reformat - Hurrah!!!