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FORCE Del. of a Partition via FDISK

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Name: kev100
Date: September 18, 2004 at 14:25:13 Pacific
OS: WIN95
CPU/Ram: PENT/32mb
Comment:

Folks,

I need to del and recreate a partition on a smaller hd via FDISK.

The Volume Name is all scrambled (showing jibberish characters right now).

I CANNOT delete the primary volume (in order to recreate it) because you have to enter the Volume name to confirm delete. And there are no keyboard characters which match the jibberish which now shows as the Volume Name.

IS THERE A WAY TO FORCE the deletion of a partition...or at lease remane the partition IN DOS.

My only other choice is to move the drive to another computer to rename the volume in Windows (then delete it)....but I'd really like to avoid that hassle, if possible.

THANKS



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Name: ham30
Date: September 18, 2004 at 15:31:51 Pacific
Reply:

If there is only one partition on the drive, you can use DelPart. It will delete all partitions on the drive.

http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart.htm


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Response Number 2
Name: kev100
Date: September 18, 2004 at 15:54:41 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks very much....that worked like a charm.

BTW, this drive was a Win95 drive (which had just an old DOS formatted drive).

The docs say the util. works good for NTFS...but it works with old DOS partitions too. for any others needing to do the same.

THANKS!


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Response Number 3
Name: ham30
Date: September 18, 2004 at 16:31:50 Pacific
Reply:

You bet. Good work!


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Response Number 4
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: September 19, 2004 at 00:07:56 Pacific
Reply:

Yup,

or

label c:

M2

Mechanix2Go@Golden-Triangle.com



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