Delete NTFS file system with fdisk??

Rhonda85

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I have a 10.2GB quantum HD. It has a 2.1GB fat16 partition and the remainder of the disk is NTFS file system. I want to make the entire drive FAT32. When I run fdisk (win98 version) and try to delete the extended partition it says "cannot delete extended dos partition while logical drives exist" so when I try to delete logical dos drive in the extended partition it says "no logical drives exist" (probably due to NTFS)
I have tried to run maxtors drive install program but it will not run because of the ntfs file system and fdisk will not work either, is the drive now ruined?

 

bozo1

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Choose the option in Fdisk 'Delete Non-Dos Partition'. If you want to nuke the other partition as well, you can download the utility from Maxtor/Quantum that will wipe the disk - it doesn't care what's already on it.

 

networkman

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Actually, you may find that Deleting the Non-DOS partition won't work either. :confused:

A while back I discovered that when you start FDISK, it will ask something along the lines of "Treat non-DOS partitions as large?" The correct response is "N" - then you use the Delete Non-DOS partition to remove the NTFS partition. Answering "Y" won't let you remove it. ;)