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fdisk can't delete partition
Name: david Date: February 5, 2000 at 07:37:50 Pacific
Comment:
I picked up an old samsung 4.3G drive.
fdisk/status reports a primary and extended partition, both about 2G. Both are DOS.
I'm unable to delete the partitions, because fdisk thinks that there are logical drives defined on the partitions. But when you try to delete the logical drives, fdisk reports that there are no logical drives on either of the partitions!!!
Name: Al Date: February 5, 2000 at 07:54:39 Pacific
Reply:
You will need to do a LOW-LEVEL format on hard drive to remove partitions. Al
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Response Number 2
Name: Marc Date: February 5, 2000 at 08:53:03 Pacific
Reply:
Unless you already deleted the Logical drive, it has to have exisited on the Extended partition. Check the status of the extended partition. Delete the logical drive on the extended partition. Then delete the extended partition. Then delete the primary partition and recreate as desired.
I don't recommend doing a low level format. You will lose critical information about bad sectors which were put on at the factory.
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Response Number 3
Name: Barry Lloyd Date: February 5, 2000 at 10:55:03 Pacific
Reply:
I had exactly the same problem on a Fujitsu drive. How do you do a low level format though - through BIOS?
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Response Number 4
Name: luis Date: February 5, 2000 at 11:01:54 Pacific
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i think you have a fdsk version prob, try with a fdisk.exe fiel from a win98se version, see if it works, let me know
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Response Number 5
Name: Computer Guy Date: February 5, 2000 at 14:51:29 Pacific
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I agree with Marc, LLF loses factory sets and can really trash a drive. Try all else before LLF. Hope this helps
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Response Number 6
Name: david Date: February 5, 2000 at 20:44:58 Pacific
Reply:
The ending of this saga can be found in a message posted in a later problem query ("Fdisk catch-22"). These were *exactly* my symptoms, and the secret fdisk switches did the trick! Thanks to all who so kindly responded to the post.
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