getting rid of linux partition

[Topochicho]

I'm sure this has been asked but, I can't seems to find anything about it.

I have a second hand drive that had linux on it. When I go into fdisk (win98 first addition) the drive had 2 partitions, one small non-dos partition, which died easily, and a second extended partition that took up 99% of the drive. I can't kill it. Says must kill logical drives first, but then says no logical drives exist.

This pc is not on a network (no OS installed), but I could hook it up to another machine, there has to be a free way of doing this.

 

[Insomnium]

The reason you can't delete the partition is because of an annoying bug in the FDisk program. There's a program that let's you delete partitions but unfortunately, i don't remember where to get it.

It's called delpart.exe and i think i got it off Microsoft's site but i can't remember. Either way you can try searching for it.

 

[medic]

Delpart.exe

 

[Topochicho]

for those looking for an answer to this in the future.

I had trouble finding delpart, but came across a shareware program while looking for it. AEfdisk deleted all the partitions on the drive and I used the standard fdisk to repartition. The program is 15k and fit on my boot disk and ran from dos.