How to delete logical drives that dont exist?

[mastertech01]

Ive run into this several times and cant remember how to kill it. Someone has partitioned a hard drive with an extended DOS partition and the original primary partition is gone. I try to delete the extended partition and Fdisk says it cant delete because it has logical drives. I try to view or delete logical drives and it says none defined so cant delete. How the hell do I get rid of this Extended DOS partition and have the full drive to create a primary on?

 

[JackBurton]

Put delpart on a boot disk and use it instead of FDISK. It will kill whatever partition you'd like on that hard drive.

 

[mastertech01]

Thanks Jack!

 

[cleverhandle]

If you have a linux boot disk or CD around, linux fdisk/cfdisk can usually take care of this, too. I think the problem has something to do with the differences between Win98 and Win2K/XP partitioning tools.

 

[mastertech01]

Thanks for the tip cleverhandle. Delpart did the trick this time fortunately, but my floppy drive died in progress so I had to swap drives and got it all fixed up now. Thanks to all.