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Re: Partitions



 

Kyle Summers wrote:

     I doono if anyone can help be about this one.  I installed Linux on
a very old computer, found out that I didn't have room for all of the
important programs, ie g++ and make, so I decided to go back to DOS.
Problem is that when I did it I didn't remove the swap partition in
Linux and fdisk refuses to monify it in any way.  Now I have a 201 meg
DOS partition, and a 30 meg unusable extended DOS partition according to
fdisk.  Does anybody know how to retrieve the lost 30 megs?

Kyle
 
 

yeah, get ahold of partition magic, even buy it if you have to, it's one of the best programs there is for this sort of thing. or maybe even fips will work, but i've ever tried it myself.

in Partition Magic you can simply just delete the swap partition and add it to your existing DOS partition by using the sliders and resizing it.
 
or in fdisk you should just be able to delete it, but you'll probably end up with an extra drive letter you don't want when you wanted it combined as C: