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Article #1786Re: Hard Drive
From: The Linux Shop
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 00:00
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 news:957500710.303565@users.anet-stl.com... > 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????????????? > > > LHR > > > > >
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