Help! I created a HD Partition I can't Delete.*FIGURED IT OUT*

[Killrose]

I have a WD 8.4gig drive that I fdisked and re-formated. That seemed to go ok. I then tried to do a disk to disk clone of a 15gig IBM that i've had some problems with and want to RMA.

Anyhow, using Disk Image 4.0, I attempted to transfer the HD data. Of course the IBM being bigger, I got a message that said the partition that I was trying to copy to the smaller disk was being re-sized to fit (the entire 15gig drive was not full by any means) and everything seemed to go ok untill I checked to see if the data had made it to the WD 8.4. It did'nt.

I then decided to fdisk the WD HD again and try another attempt. But when I tried to fdisk the drive it would not allow me to delete the extended DOS partition (which I did'nt create, as I figured this was temparary and i'd just use the whole 8.4gig one partition). And I still can't after several attempts at doing so. The fdisk utility is the one off a Win98 boot disk.

When I used Disk Image to look at the partitions on both drives, it shows that the WD has an Unallocated partition which is the size of the partition I cannot delete.

Do I need something like IBM's ZAP utility o get rid of this?

 

[Stratification]

Don't know specifics on that but you might be able to use delpart to get rid of it. (just do a search for delpart.exe on the internet)

 

[Killrose]

I think I'll try IBM's "ZAP" utility if it will allow it's use on non-IBM products. But if not, i''l look that up.
Thanks.

 

[Killrose]

Fixed it. Used Partition Magic and created new partitions which took HD space from the unallocated space, formatted them, then was able to delete them. Probably the long way around things, but it worked and I was able to FDISK and FORMAT the drive and gain everthing back.