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Article #8872Re: Zapping a partition
From: Tom Friel
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1991 16:34
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1991 16:34
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>> >>Somehow we've gotten a huge non-dos partition on our hard >>drive. FDISK and Norton refuse to delete it. >> >>Is there a program that will zap it? Our Tandon DOS offers a utility that replaces FDISK called FXPREP. It has an undocumented option "-s" that we call "slam mode": it will allow one to delete any partition. -- Tom Friel | Tandon Computer Corporation | (805) | tom@quad1.UUCP | 609 Science Drive Moorpark, CA 93021 | 378-7881 | tom@quad.com | Moorpark, CA 93021 |__________| UUCP: ..psivax!quad1!tandon!tom ..psivax!quad1!tom
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!srhqla!quad1!tandon!tom From: tom@tandon.UUCP (Tom Friel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Zapping a partition Message-ID: <19@tandon.UUCP> Date: 2 Apr 91 16:34:50 GMT References: <140700040@cdp> <1991Apr1.134345.9575@news.larc.nasa.gov> Reply-To: tom@.UUCP (Tom Friel) Organization: Tandon Computer Corporation Lines: 16