Re: linux ( off topic )
- Posted by "Brian K. Broker" <bkb at CNW.COM> Nov 28, 2000
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Kat wrote: > Hi linux users.. > > I have a harddrive with Redhat 6.x on it, and i can't get rid of it. Fdisk > says: > > 1) it's got a ext dos partition on it. > 2) can't delete non-dos partitions > 3) the partition is empty > 4) can't delete it while there are logical drives on it > > I can't use linux to delete it, cause linux wants me to log in, and there are > no users to log in as. > > Kat, > confused A program that should be in everybody's 'toolkit' is 'bigfdisk.exe'. It will let you create/delete any partition. It's a DOS util that's not very intuitive but let me take you through deleting that partition: start by running in DOS 1. enter drive number that the partition is on (either 0 or 1) 2. press 'L' to list partitions 3. press 'D' to delete partition (you will need to enter partition number from step 2 4. press 'L' if desired to confirm deleted partition 5. press 'W' to write partition table to disk 6. press 'Q' to quit 7. press 'H' or '?' at any time for list of legal commands 8. reboot I can't seem to find a copy of this handy utility anywhere so I uploaded it to my web space at http://cnw.com/~bkb/bigfdisk.zip My only warning is: don't blame me if you accidentally delete your system partition using this utility. -- Brian