FDisk trouble

[bob63]

Need Help

I was messing around with partitions on the HD on my Thinkpad 600X and made a mess of things. So I decided I'd just FDisk every thing and start over. When I tried to delete the logical drives, Fdisk reports there are no logical drives. However when I try to delete the Extended drive Fdisk complains that it can not delete an extended partion while logical drives exist. When I select Display drive info I get the following:

Part Status Type MBytes System Usage
1 ExtDos 1875 33%
C:2 A PriDos 406 FAT32 7%

If I try to create a new logical parition in the extened partition, Fdisk complain that "No logical drives are defined", but then states "All available space in the extended partition is assigned to logical drives". Help!!!, I want to get rid of this extended patition

 

[YoungFart]

What OS do u have?
If you have a WinNT or Win2K or XP CD, you can go into install and delete the partition from there.

 

[Cosmic_Horror]

most hard drive manufactues have a little utility that writyes zeros to every sector. This effectlively wipes the hardd rvie clean and you can start from scratch. 🙂click here for more info on ibms utlitity called wipe.