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Article #8839Re: Zapping a partition
From: Mike Ching
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1991 00:30
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1991 00:30
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In article <valley.670507690@gsbsun> valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) writes: >crosenberg@cdp.UUCP writes: > > >>Somehow we've gotten a huge non-dos partition on our hard >>drive. FDISK and Norton refuse to delete it. I've tried to >>mess up the partition table with DEBUG but am either missing >>it, or there is an extra copy I don't know about...anyway >>FDISK still keeps seeing that non-dos partition. > >>Is there a program that will zap it? Does anyone know how >>to totally munge the partition table and all copies so that >>nothing can recognize them? (we are beyond caring about >>the data). > >Well, there is always low-level formatting... > >But seriously, I've often wondered if there was a program that would >just edit the partition table w/o regard to who supposedly "owns" a >given paritition. Is there? I use a version of FDISK written for the Minix operating system that tries to recognize all partition types, DOS, OS/2, MINIX, XENIX, etc. Mail me it you want it. Mike Ching ching@amd.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!apple!veritas!amdcad!brahms!ching From: ching@brahms.amd.com (Mike Ching) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Zapping a partition Message-ID: <1991Apr2.003031.3863@amd.com> Date: 2 Apr 91 00:30:31 GMT References: <140700040@cdp> <valley.670507690@gsbsun> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices; Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 28