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Name: gman4dx266
Date: December 28, 2002 at 17:47:16 Pacific
OS: LINUX 7.0
CPU/Ram: Pentium 133MHz/81MB
Comment:

I Any 1 on the face of the earth knows how to remove all linux partitions from MS-DOS(by using a program) with out Low-Level Formatting the HDD please email me a link at Najerogu@yahoo.com



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Name: David Perry
Date: December 28, 2002 at 18:13:36 Pacific
Reply:

The symatec version of fdisk, called gdisk will remove partions from other OSs.

You can d/l it from

http://www.drd.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/download.cgi?FileID=5090

You can read more about it at

http://www.drd.dyndns.org/main.html

GDISK is Symantec's replacement for Microsoft's FDISK command. GDISK does everything that FDISK does, plus it has a few additional features that make it more versatile than FDISK. GDISK will allow you to format your partition as you are creating it - and it does it quickly! You can also hide and unhide partitions. GDISK will also allow you to delete partitions created by other operating systems. Getting rid of partitions created by some types of unix OSes can be difficult if not impossible at times for FDISK, but GDISK can delete them easily. GDISK is also command-line driven. You don't have a confusing menu and if you are preparing several harddisks or systems, you can even prepare a file of commands that can be run in batch mode to automate the process.

Also, it is easy to use the linux installation / format routines to format a partion as a fat16 for dos use.

If you have any other ms questions for this linux forum, please don't hesitate to ask.


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