I have unix installed on one of my Hard drives but would like to uninstall it. Ive tried reformatting the drive with partition magic aswell as using DOS f/disk but none of them work. In partition magic an error appears "error #4 Bad argument/parameter" can anyone help????? Thankyou in advanced Jeffers

Have you tried Partition Magic 7.0 ?

Im using partition magic 7.0 but that gives me the error message.

I do not understand why, if you used a Win9x boot disk and tried to run FDISK and then tried to remove Non-Dos partition, it didn't work. The Windows 9X boot disk installs tools that run separate from any operating system that may be installed. If you can get to an A\ using the Win9X boot disk there should be nothing from stopping you from clearing any partition DOS or Non-DOS. If you have a Linux installation disk, try it. It should offer you a way to remove any partition too. Of course there is a Unix forum right there to the left of these words. Someone there may be able to get you where you want to go.

Sugestion: Try to delete the partition rather than reformat it. Once deleted an equivalent amount of space should be available to create a new partition which can be formatted to whatever you want. If everything else fails there are utilities such as Disk Manager which may help. Or you can download a utility which writes zeros to the disk (low level format) and takes it back to basics. I am guessing the disk is not the primary master so another thought is to connect it as primary master so the BIOS has direct access to it, use the floppy boot disk so nothing else is involved, and restore your master boot record with "fdisk/mbr".

Not up on Unix and its foibles.. but perhaps delpart.exe will at least lose/delete the partition? It may be worth a try? Then reconfigure drive? http://hercules.lss.ksu.edu/download/MSSTUFF/index.htm It was part of NT3.1 Resource Kit, omitted from NT4 RK. To use, boot with a DOS/'9x boot-disk, change floppies, rn the util, and follow on screen prompts. Perhaps you can/will post back with results?

Hello people, Thanks very much for all your replies, ive solved thew problem with a download of disk manager, i still dont know why partition magic and dos could not see the hard drives or format it but alls well now. Yet again thanks for your help i'd be screwed without you guys!! Jeffers