On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Shanta McBain wrote: > I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk > says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended > secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the > secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as the logical partitions > exist. likely the linux primary and swap. It will not delete them as > delete partitions dose not see the partitions. > Is there a linux tool that will fix the problem?
I think you should try cfdisk first. It's far easier to use, and it displays you the logical partitions within your extended. Another way is to download a low level formatter like DiskManager or EzDrive. As stated by the ATA specification, a hd has to do such a low level format without any problems. Bye Daniel -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Gross eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hollarstrasse 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-85053 Ingolstadt, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax. -- David Letterman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]