On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 10:12, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Kaj, if you have a windows boot disk, use fdisk to completely > > remove the partition, then let MCC deal with it. I've never used > > the linux fdisk, but I would have thought you could do the same > > with that. > > > > Anne > > Thanks, Anne. But..eh.. I don't have Windows disk, and even if I > had, how could I get in into the external drive ? > Ah - I missed that it was an external drive - sorry about that. I've never used an external drive, but I would think that you could only do that if the bios recognised the external drive - I understand that some do.
> The linux fdisk utility won't let me do anything on the drive. > Is the drive seen at all? I would have thought that if the drive is recognised it should be possible to remove the partition as long as it's unmounted? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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