Sometimes Partition Magic can delete the partitions, but then sometimes Partition Magic will totally mess up the Partition Table, then the hard drive won't even format or fdisk or anything, (I have been there). I used Partition Magic 4.0 to try and delete some ext2 partitions and it deleted them, but when I tried to rerun Disk Druid or DOS's fdisk or Linux's fdisk, all I got was a message about an invalid partition table. So, I had to start totally over. I downloaded a program called pdisk, I think it's called, at work and took it home. I had to manually edit the partition table to get everything back so I could then re-fdisk the hard drive and format. That was a job. Anyway, if you run into the invalid partition table problem, download the program pdisk, from hotfiles.com, it helped me. Otherwise, Partition Magic is the easiest way to modify your partition table, nondestructively. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] partitions... On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, you wrote: > I have a very serious problem. I am trying to delete my partitions, and am > unable to. I can delete the partition for dos, but I cannot delete the > partition for Linux. My fdisk program (for dos) doesn't recognize the > partition or something, so it won't delete it. How can I delete all of th > partitions on my disk and start over????? I really need help! Thanks in > advance! > Linux FDISK is the only way, AFAIK. Although, Partition Magic might be able to take care of it for you (something like $60 retail.) < John May - Computer Technician > < E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > < webpage: http://www.cybergeek.org >
