Problem w/Fdisk...?

[Bartman39]

I recently had a HD with a small primary & large extended partition (broken down into 3 logical drives within the extended partition)...

I had no trouble removing the logical drives (in the extened partition) but when I tried to delete the extended partition it said "logical drives in the extended partition not deleted"...? WTF...? I tried again and again...? I even deleted the primary partition but no help...? I was doing this via a boot disk but then came up with the idea to simply copy "fdisk" to the c drive of a working PC and slave in the HD with a problem... I then went into WinME and ran fdisk in a dos window and had no problem deleting a sort of hidden logical drive...? Which also allowed me to delete the extended partition also...?

Has anyone ever seen this...? Or possibly know why this happened...?

Thanks...

 

[Geekbabe]

Does WINME grab and hide a section of hard drive for "Recovery" purposes ?

 

[Bartman39]

No not as far as I know...? This was another logical drive that fdisk in Dos did not see...? WinME puts its recovery stuff on the C drive if I`m not mistaken...?

 

[GAZZA]

I am extremely suprised you was able to delete the primary partition before the extended dos partition, that's normally not the case (not with my experience anyway)
Have a check over this great Fdisk tutorial HERE

 

[Bartman39]

I too was surprised...? The only thing I have not included with this oddity is I have used Norton Ghost on this OS and transfered it 3 times finaly to this drive... But each transfer was done to the same size HD and whats funny is the original drive (a WD153BA) is whats back in place now and working fine...


Could Norton Ghost have somehow created a hidden drive...? Hehehe a Ghost drive...?

 

[GAZZA]

Not sure Ghost has that kind of power to be honest.
Most hard drive manufacturers have utlities that help set up your drive such as partitioning/low level formatting/etc , maybe give that a try instead of Fdisk.

 

[rommel]

try using another boot floppy with fdisk on it.....sometimes its the program itself...also be sure that dont have any other OS like ext2 of ntfs in the extended partition that fdisk isnt able to see