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Re: Partition problem
Oh yeah, I forgot about that part... annoying little tidbit, isn't it!
On 13 Oct 99, you wrote:
> On Oct 12, 7:44pm, Dennis Podein wrote:
> > Subject: Partition problem
> > Hello , I am having a hell of a time here . This is my deal .
> > I have / had Redhat 6 on a 486 . Anyway I want to remove it ,
> > set up win95 for my kids .So I plug in my windows boot disk ,
> > and try to fdisk the damn linux partion out , no go . I get "
> > error reading fixed drive " message . I've tried disk druid ,
> > but I don't want to set linux up , I want to remove it . Any
> > ideas ?
>
> I typically start the Redhat install, get the the part where I can choose
> disk duid or fdisk, and use fdisk to remove all the partitions, save the
> cahnges and hit the reset button. THe easiest way to clean a system,
> I've had (for some reason) DOS fdisk refuse to remove Linux partitions
> because it thoiught they contains logical drives, but would not list the
> logical drives so I counld delete them.
>
>
--Tim Gray