FDISK paradox

[Alphathree33]

My 40 GB Western Digital HDD was seperated into FAT32 and NTFS partitions.

Using FDISK, I can ditch the FAT32 no problem. Then I go to get rid of the NTFS. There are four delete options in FDISK -- primary, extended, logical and non-dos. When I try to delete primary, it says there are no primary drives. So I try to delete extended, and it says I can't because logical drives exist. So I go to delete logical drives and it says that there are no logical drives defined. When I try to delete non-dos drives, it says there aren't any.

Well, anyway you look at it, I still have a damn 30 GB NTFS partition that I cant get rid of!!! I want to make one big partition again, but before I do that, I have to delete this old one. "The target remains!" - ID4

Help. Please.

 

[obenton]

Try the FreeDOS fdisk utility. Do Google search and you'll find it.

 

[Tiger]

Always, always, start blowing away partitions from inside out.
Non-DOS, logical, extended, primary.
Which version of Fdisk are you using?

 

[bozo1]

What Tiger said.

Fdisk from Win98 or later should be able to nuke an NTFS partition.

Another option is to grab the disk wipe utility from western digital's website.

Or, if you are going to be installing W2K or XP, you can just do whatever partitioning you want during setup.

 

[Alphathree33]

Thanks. The FreeDOS thing worked.