Keith, I overcomed the same problem with gdisk.exe. But, anyway, fdisk.exe didnt work. good luck....

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Thanks for the diskedit suggestion. In truth I hadn't a clue as to what I was doing...but somehow I successfully killed the LINUX partition and was able to use FDISK to rebuild.

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Try using delpart.com file from a boot disk. Be careful though, it wipes out all partitions on all fixed disks on hte system and gives you no last chance warning.

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I have big problems with linux partition. I whant to remove this partition. I need strongly help.

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gdisk works!! you can get gdisk.exe from ghost at www.download.com, install it and there is. "gdisk 1 /mbr" to clear master boot record. "gdisk 1 /del /all" ro delete all partitions. 1 is disk number, 1st, 2nd, etc. read the "usage.txt"

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where can i download gdisk or something? cant find anything. pls hlp.

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gdisk.exe can be found here: http://www.innovativesoftware.com/ghost/text_only/to_choose.htm

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Strike that last message. WRONG. Sorry.

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Sorry about the previous two messages. But... I found the software... and forgot where to get it. So, i placed it on my own site. Go to the download pages on this site: http://home.wanadoo.nl/borburgh/

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Actually, you can use fdisk. It doesn't show up if you do "fdisk /?" but it works. Just type "fdisk /mbr" to wipe the master boot record.

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Thanks to whoever started this thread. I have had the same problem in the past. I even sent a hard drive back because I thought it was bad, because I could not remove a linux partition. I would like to make a correction to a post above. I think the command should be: "gdisk 1 /del /all" thanks to everyone, especially Marc for offering the file for download.

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First of all fdisk /mbr will not do the trick! Second, gdisk 1 /del /all is for removign ALL partitions. Best thing to do is gdisk 1 /status to see what's on the drive and have a look at gdisk /?. You can remove partitions one at a time.

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I used the DISK GO ( see your hard disk manufacturer and download the respective software above ) in my QUANTUM 4.3GB. It's work fine... THANKS FOR ALL HELPS. Arimathea

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Use delpart.exe instead of delpart.com. It is a CGI that allows you to select which partitions you want to delete instead of them all. Search for the Kansas State University page with Microsoft utilities.

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I used the Ranish Partition Manager (a link in this thread) and it worked perfect. GDISK didn't work anyway. Thanks...

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I was using Partition Magic to remove a linux partition, and it was interrupted by a power failure. When I restarted, PM couldn't find the partiton, but the dirve space was still occupied. would one of the tools discussed above work for my problem?

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I too am facing problem in removing linux partition as fdisk doesnot see this partition.... Rescue Me..?

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linux partitions can be removed with fdisk, option 3 delete parts brings up another menu one option is delete non dos partition. this works I did it today.

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i cant remove my linux partition with FDISK and beacuse of that my 6.4 GB is not useable. please tell me what to do. thenk you.

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Just try GDISK. I'm not using anything else. Just print and read the manual (RTFM)! You can find GDISK at a site mentioned by Marc on : February 15, 2000

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OK Lets sum up this thread. point one: Linux is giving people issues. Why? There are two basic partition types, Primary and Extended. There may be up to four primary partitions on a drive. Now since that is limiting in many ways, lets talk about the extended. There is only one extended( unless otherwise noted I will be ingnoring funky geek work arounds) partition, and it gets no drive letter. Its just a defined area. Within the extended you can make a total of 23 Logical drives( 26 letters in the alphabet, a&b are floppy, c is always active primary partition) You can't have an extended without at least one primary. You can't have a logical drive without an extended. And you can't remove them unless you reverse the order. I am clarifying a few points here that many of the people posting seem to be unaware of. FDISK , the dos utility , can not ever remove a logical drive that is not formatted in fat16, or fat 32( dependfing on your version of fdisk) So linux and nt and netware can cause some issues to arise if the are populating a logical drive. My solution is gdisk. It works. Evreytime. BUT you must do as BoBo says and read the manual. It even works on NTFS5 with W2K.

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Go gdisk... Go gdisk... Woohoo!!! It worked! I'm so happy! fdisk, slate10, partition magic, and delpart didn't do it, but gdisk did. Thanks! L

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Gdisk is to be found at Norton sites. It's included in the 13,x MB pack together with Norton Ghost utility. Don't kill me if this isn't correctly...

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Thanx for Gdisk comments It work perfect....and make me very happy so again Thanx !!!

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Many thanks to Manny and Marc. For the file and the summary. Worked without a hitch.

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I installed Linux. Installation seemed to go fine. I logged in under a username that I set during installation. I then tried to start X Windows, but I got some errors. I now want to remove Linux from my computer. If I FDisk the MBR will it kill off Windows? Please help, I am pretty new to this. Will Partition Magic 5.0 be able to format the Linux partitions back to FAT 32?, or just format it and have it just go back to my original C drive?? I read most of everything above and an still somewhat confused about what I should do.

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i used diskdruid and linux fdisk both with success at removing all partitions i then ran dos fdisk, and then fdisk /mbr i then fromated with dos and it worked great i have done this on several machines with success

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I recently did a network install of Win2K Server on 16 machines from a script for classroom training. When the machines rebooted, all but the one I had installed linux on (playing around in a class) booted up to W2k. The disks had all been fdisked, partitioned and formated with a 2GB DOS Primary partition (13 GB drives). The linux disk started up with LILO. I floppy booted to a DOS prompt and did fdisk /mbr. That fixed it. That command copies the backup Master Boot Record that is on the hard disk to the proper place on the disk over the active MBR. I have used the same command to "kill" a boot sector virus. Hope this helps.

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I tried it but it's not working. I didn't know that it should have spaces on each parameter. Ex. gdisk_1_/del_/all, underscore represents space. Thanks to everyone.

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