Delete NTFS file system with fdisk??

[Rhonda85]

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]

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.

 

[Stratification]

Another really general partition removal tool would be delpart, just do a search on the net for delpart.exe

 

[networkman]

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

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. 😉

 

[Rhonda85]

Thanks all, I found a program called xfdisk that did the trick.