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Help! Cant remove Extended DOS Partition

Scruff · 2002-07-17 09:05:39

Was trying to fdisk a 10Gb hard drive that was split into a 3Gb NTFS and 6.5Gb Extended DOS Partition. Couldn't get rid of the Extended Dos partiton as it says there are logical drives configured on it, but when i look at the logical drive info it says theres none!! So i'm stuck at the moment with only a 3GB HD instead of…

17-07-2002 10:05am

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Scruff

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Was trying to fdisk a 10Gb hard drive that was split into a 3Gb NTFS and 6.5Gb Extended DOS Partition. Couldn't get rid of the Extended Dos partiton as it says there are logical drives configured on it, but when i look at the logical drive info it says theres none!!

So i'm stuck at the moment with only a 3GB HD instead of a 10 GB one. is the disk fooked?

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#2 17-07-2002 10:22am

lynchie

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Have you got win2k/nt4 running on it at the moment? If so, try use disk manager in control panel. It may allow you to drop the partition from there.

If you have a linux boot disk handy, boot up on it and fdisk it within linux. It will remove it no problem

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#3 17-07-2002 10:48am

SickBoy

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The first thing you should do in FDISK is delete the non dos partition(the NTFS one). Then remove any remaining partitions....

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