I'm having a little problem with FDISK and I was wondering if anyone could help me. If so, here's the problem. I had my hard drive partitioned to 3. One was a primary DOS partition, the other was an extended DOS partition, and the third was a non Dos partition running Linux. After a while, I decided to delete my Linux partition because I don't have a large enough hard drive...So, I deleted my non-Dos partition in hopes of making another DOS partition that I can store files on. Well, after deleting the NON Dos partition, I can't do ANYTHING. I try to delete my extended DOS partition, but it says I can't do that while logical drives exist. Then I went to delete my logical Dos drives, but it then says I have none! I thought it was weird that it says I can't delete my Extended DOS partition while logical drives exist.....BUT THEN IT SAYS I HAVE NO LOGICAL DRIVES!!! What the hell is going on?

DeLL, I had a similar problem after I had a Linux partition on the whole drive. I tried a bunch of things. Finally I went to the hard drive mfr. website. They had partition tools that, among other things, removed the Linux partition. I would guess that every major hard drive mfr. would have a similar utility.

Most flavors of Linux create a hidden partition from which to boot the OS from. Fdisk seems to have no affact on this partition, but later releases of Partition Magic do a good job. Beware of some hard drive manufacturers utilities. WD's EZBios creates a similar problem with no recourse.

Look for GDISK in the Web It`s a very simple and usefull tool. You can remaster your MBR, create and delete partitions, format your hard drive, using just a few command lines. Remainder: Logical drives start w/ 0 phisical disks w/ 1

hello friend! pick up FDISK99 on: http://www.freedos.org/ it is very powerful and it is an installable one then manage more Giga and Giga.

I can't remember now if this was Seagate's or Western digital's utility. I used it to delete a Linux partition, and format that drive. Then to repartition and format that same drive and copy Win 95 from a smaller drive to the bigger one. After that I used FDISK (from DOS 6.22) to remove the NON-DOS partition that the utility installed, from the smaller drive and then partition and format it.

I tried the new fdisk on the FreeDos website, and it is amazing. It took care of my hidden logical drive problems with not a single complication.