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deleting extended DOS partition

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sohcrates

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Howdy All,

I'm working to repartition and reformat an IBM Deskstar 30 gig 7200 rpm drive. Before it housed a dual boot of win2k and win98. win2k crashed and now win98 is the only OS that works. We decided to re-install Win98 ONLY, but unfortunately i CANNOT delete the old extended dos partition that housed win2k. (i know, normally a win2k partition would be non-dos partition, but for some reason it got screwed up and fdisk thinks it's an extended dos.

anyway, i can delete the old fat32 partition, a 25 gig one, but the 5 gig "extended dos" partition still shows up in fdisk, and no matter what i try to delete in fdisk, it will not go away (i want to make one new 30 gig partition for win98se)

any ideas on how to get rid of this annoying extra partition so as not to waste 5 gigs of otherwise usable hard drive space?

thanks a lot!

 
Make sure you don't have any logical drives defined within that extended partition... fdisk won't let you delete it until the logical drives (if any) are gone...

Dave
 
update:

i have deleted any logical drives associated with the drive containing the extended dos partition. the error i get when i try to delte the extended dos partition is that no extended dos partition exists, even though fdisk sees an "Extended dos" partition of 5 gigs size. i'm really stumped here. perhaps it's a boot sector virus?

 
Do an fdisk /MBR to rewrite the boot sector. If you are still unable to delete the partition, you may have better luck with a) the win2000 FDISK or b) the linux FDISK, both of which can handle partition types which are baffling to the win9x fdisk.

LevcoS
 
I think you can get the partition by using one of the ibm hd tools
called dft32-v200.exe you can use it to wipe out the boot sector or just do a lowevel format.

Also another easy fix is to use partition magic(if u have it handy). Under winME, create the emergency disks during the install. Use these disk to boot and you should be able to delete the partition.

hope that helps.
yb.
 
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