My drive has an extended dos partition with logical dos drives. Cannot figure out how to remove partitions. A response to my posting yesterday suggested I use startup floppy's for NT, which I do not have. Actually, I acquired this HD and have no access to any NT stuff. Can I get anywhere with this. Thank you for the information in lay man's term, I am trying to learn as I go. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!

You can get arounf this problem by using the computers BIOS as your friend and you also need a Win95 or 98 boot floppy. Boot the computer and go into the BIOS under Standard CMOS settings. Change the drive type and also the mode to Normal. It should have been set to LBA or Auto. Exit with saving the BIOS settings. Reboot using the floppy and type FDISK. You can now delete the Extended DOS partition. Reboot and go back into the BIOS. Change the drive type and mode both back to Auto. Reboot using the floppy, FDISK again to delete the primary DOS partition and you now have a clean disk. This trick works on any operating system such as Linux that create a NON-DOS partition as well. If you do not have a Win95 or 98 boot floppy, let me know and I will give you my website address to download a self-extracting boot image from it.

Aaron you posted twice a few days ago saying it was NT/NTFS? in the Extended partition space...? http://www.computing.net/windowsnt/wwwboard/forum/11497.html In that post I pointed you to delpart.exe - which will remove just about any partition, and does not require the NT flopppies or NT CD, or a DOS/'9x boot-disk. You will need a DOS/'9x boot-disk afterwards to reconfigure the HD. For any of the above you 'will' require access to the floppy drive; that was also covered... Did you read your other (second) post?

Yes, I did read my second post, and delpart.exe worked like a charm. thanks a million! Aaron

lm-s, thanks from me, too! I was going crazy trying to get rid of an extra partition from my mom's old Dell. Pam