Is there a way to...

[AlphaIVT]

take away all traces of partitions on my HD?

My old 9gb HD has 2 parititions. I wanted to put those two paritions as 1 so I can sell it to my friend. He wants only 1 parition

 

[loogie]

If you want to save the data, partition magic. Since you are selling it, just make a boot disk. Run fdisk, delete the partitions and then recreate the partitions. You will have to delete from the bottom of the list to the top.

 

[AlphaIVT]

does that really work?

anyone else?

 

[Windogg]

I can confirm what Loogie said. Partition Magic works great if you want to preserve data. Otherwise just Fdisk it. Delete any entended partitions or logical drives. Then delete the primary partition and format the drive.

Windogg

 

[Dan]

Since you're selling the drive I assume you don't want to save the data. Just follow loogie's instructions on how to fdisk it. Create one 9GB Primary DOS partition and make it active. Then, if you're a really nice guy, format it for your friend.

 

[AlphaIVT]

Thanks

 

[Noriaki]

As long as they are all DOS (Windows) partitions, just use FDISK

Do this order:
Delete Logical Drives
Delete Extended DOS partition
Delete Primary DOS partition
Create Primary DOS partition

It'll ask if you want to make it 100% of the disk and active, say yes.


Then format the partition and you're good to go.
If you have non-DOS partitions on there you might have problems, FDISK can be unfriendly to non-DOS file systems.

 

[AlphaIVT]

Thanks for the detailed help Noriaki, thanks everyone else