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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