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Western Digital 13 GB ATA66 HDD in question.
Originally partitioned with FDISK, and formatted under Win2K for NTFS format. Partition structure as follows, Primary 50% of HDD space, Extended/with 1 Logical taking up the other 50% of space.
Now attempting to reformat and repartition. Enter FDISK, attempt to delete Logical Partition, error - stays no Logical partitions defined. Then attempt to delete Extended Partitions, error - cannot delete Extended partition while Logical partitions exists. I'm like...WTF? Those two errors just contradicted themselves. Attempt to delete Primary partition, that works finally - so we just have an extended/logical partition left taking up 50% of the space. Since it was formatted under NTFS, I was thinking it might be confused with a NON-DOS partition, so I try using that option to delete - error, says no NON-DOS partitions defined.
I'm stumped, can't get rid of that extended/logical partition - this is why I hate IDE, if this was a SCSI drive, I would have just low-level formatted by now
. That option is my best friend lol. If anyone has any ideas BESIDES using Partition Magic (as I'm trying to locate that as we speak), but has suggestions on other simple diagnostic programs, that would be great.
Thanks!
-Phillip
Western Digital 13 GB ATA66 HDD in question.
Originally partitioned with FDISK, and formatted under Win2K for NTFS format. Partition structure as follows, Primary 50% of HDD space, Extended/with 1 Logical taking up the other 50% of space.
Now attempting to reformat and repartition. Enter FDISK, attempt to delete Logical Partition, error - stays no Logical partitions defined. Then attempt to delete Extended Partitions, error - cannot delete Extended partition while Logical partitions exists. I'm like...WTF? Those two errors just contradicted themselves. Attempt to delete Primary partition, that works finally - so we just have an extended/logical partition left taking up 50% of the space. Since it was formatted under NTFS, I was thinking it might be confused with a NON-DOS partition, so I try using that option to delete - error, says no NON-DOS partitions defined.
I'm stumped, can't get rid of that extended/logical partition - this is why I hate IDE, if this was a SCSI drive, I would have just low-level formatted by now
. That option is my best friend lol. If anyone has any ideas BESIDES using Partition Magic (as I'm trying to locate that as we speak), but has suggestions on other simple diagnostic programs, that would be great.Thanks!
-Phillip
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