Reformatting harddrive

[Kevin O'Connor]

> Steve Jaramillo wrote:
> 
> I just recently purchased a bigger and better computer that I want to
> run my Linux Server on and now I would like to change my old machine
> back into a windows machine so that my wife can use it.  How do I
> format the hardrive to allow me to do this, I have tried running fdisk
> and everytime I try and delete the extended partitions it tells me
> that I cannot delete the partition while logical drives exist, even
> though I have also deleted the logical drives.  Somebody please
> help!!  Any information would be greatly appreciated.  Are there any
> special commands I must use?

Using the Linux version of fdisk will work. Boot up with one of the
single floppy distro's or temporarily hook the drive up to another linux
box.

There may be DOS based utilities that will help with this. I just
haven't run into them.

The last time I had to deal with this, I think I just started a RedHat
install and then bailed out once I had written the Windoze partition(s)
back.

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Kevin O'Connor

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