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Re: Hard Drive

#1786
From: The Linux Shop
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 00:00
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This is a real bad example of how limited anything from Microsoft really is.
I used an old application from '93 called "Disk Manager" by on-track to get
the partition table into proper shape. You might try doing it with the
install disk of Linux and using the Linux fdsisk.
--
From Damien,
http://www.linuxshop.com.au


"LongHairedRedneck" <longhairedredneck@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I just got linux RH 6.1, I've been messing with it installing it and
> reinstalling it. Just to help get the feel of it. Then I tried to reformat
> the hard drive, and reinstall windows. fdisk won't reformat the drive for
> DOS! It lists the / partition as a non dos partition but it won't let me
> delete it. It tells me i can't delete the partition because it contains
> logical drives, but when I try to delete the logical drive it says this
> partition contains no logical drives and it's back to step one!
>
> There must be a way to re format a drive back to DOS???????But
> How?????????????
>
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> LHR
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