hi, i'm avi. my friend hav a 40GB Samsung HDD and it had win98, win2k and linux loaded in three different partitions. in total there were 4 partitions - the last one for backup. he reinstallled win98 and made a mess of the partition table. i don't hav the linux cd to remove the linux partition. i tried with fdisk and managed to remove the linux native partition but it couldn't remove the linux swap partition. and i couldn't remove the partitions. i somehow managed to format c: and load win98 and its working fine. but the 200MB of swap space is being wasted. i need help. will samsung dm solve the problem? what are to steps to use dm?

avi, explain exactly what it is you want to do. Right now all I know is that you have a problem and what you did. But I do not know what you want to accomplish. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; Then industry pollutes the water and kills all the fish.

Partition Magic or Any win NT kernel/ Ithink can erase linux patitions MS fdisk is one of the worst things ever produced create some p magic diskettes they work good. Win 98 and such cannot delete this partition. You may be able to use your win 2kp disk somehow, can't tell you exactly, but it probably can produce boot disks or just DL the 6 from XP from the MS site and use recovery console. P.S You should have had more than 4 partions total. 98, 2kp, /,swap and .. well maybe not, but doesn't all distro.s of lin almost always set up three partitions or did you custom partition...Anyway, doesn't matter, but don't you think you should have posted this in the linux forum? Maybe not since it is a predominant win question. cjae

Hi Ok it sounds like you have deleted all partitions except the swap and of course the primary dos partition.. As a starting point run fdisk /status These details will be a start. The samsung dm (diskManager) would be useful. It is used to install an OS onto a drive. You already have a OS installed, so you just need to delete the swap partition. You can do this with fdisk. Once you have posted back what fdisk states exactly, we can procede from there.