Re: Partitions

[travis dockweiler <akira@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kyle Summers wrote:

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> >>     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?
> >
> >If you can, get ahold of a win95, win98, or winnt boot disk with fdisk
> >on it. Or even a linux boot disk with fdisk on it.  Use those to remove
> >the partition.  Make sure you backup anything important before you do
> >this as you will likely lose all your files.
> >
> >Darron
> >
> >
> I tried the win95 and the win98 fdisk, but neither of them would remove
> it...does the Linux one do something different?  Is there any easy way
> to make a Linuc boot disk off the web?
>

yeah get rescue.gz off sunsite.unc.edu and put a formatted floppy in the
drive and type rawrite rescue.gz a:\

then reboot.