You could low-level format the drive, of course.
Dale
> At 09:10 PM 08/15/1999 +0300, Aryeh M. Weiss wrote:
> >
> >Help! During an install that broke just after partitioning, I managed to
> >create an invulnerable partition.
> >
> >If I try to reinstall (Redhat 6.0), disk druid tell me
> >"error reading partiion table for block device hdb. no such
> > file or directory" . it then insists that I skip that drive.
> >
> >Within DOS or WINDOWS, fdisk reads the partition table, and reports an
> >extended DOS partition with no logical drives defined. If I try to remove
> >that extended partition, it reports that it cannot remove an extended
> >partition with logical drives on it. (This is the same partition which
> >had no logical drives...). FIDSK sees the primary DOS partition without
> >any trouble.
> >
> >If I try to remove it as a non-DOS partition, I am told by fdisk that
> >there are no non-DOS partitions present.
> >
> >FIPS won't touch it because it looks like an extended partition.
> >
> >Can someone out there tell me how to get Linux to access this disk and
> >remove the partition. I had previously put a swap and native linux partition
> >in that area, but Linux wont even access the disk.
> >
> >Thanks in advance, and my apologies if this is a FAQ that I missed.
> >--aryeh
> >Aryeh Weiss | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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