Re: Partitions

[skull <skull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>     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