Re: Partitions

["Kyle Summers" <c64c128@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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?

Kyle

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