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Hello,
I tried to re-partition my hard disk with FDISK with a dual boot of Red Hat Linux 7.0 and Win98...So I cann remove completely Win98...When I tried to delete the extended partition completely and make one whole disk I get an message that states that I cannot delete the extended partition without removing the logical drives...There is no logical drives that I can delete...
Please help.... :confused:
Tman
[ 14 February 2001: Message edited by: tman ]
mangeli
02-14-2001, 12:24 PM
Use cfdisk.
It's a lot easier if you can see the partitions....
bdg1983
02-14-2001, 12:31 PM
You can also use Partition Magic (if you have it) or the Linux version of fdisk to delete the logical partition first and then the extended partition.
If a logical partition contains your Linux ext2 filesystem, then the MS fdisk will not detect it nor allow you to delete the partition.
Originally posted by mangeli:
Use cfdisk.
It's a lot easier if you can see the partitions....
Where do I get cfdisk...And how do I use it...
Originally posted by mdwatts:
You can also use Partition Magic (if you have it) or the Linux version of fdisk to delete the logical partition first and then the extended partition.
If a logical partition contains your Linux ext2 filesystem, then the MS fdisk will not detect it nor allow you to delete the partition.
I tried using partition magic without any success...It kepps giving me and INT error(either 255 or 295)...Where can I get the linux version of FDISK...
FoBoT
02-14-2001, 12:42 PM
Originally posted by tman:
I get an message that states that I cannot delete the extended partition without removing the logical drives...There is no logical drives that I can delete...
it isn't you, it is ms fdisk, as the other have said
here is a pretty easy way to take care of this problem
make a win9x boot disk, download Ranish Partition Manager (http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/), unzip it onto the boot disk, reboot with that floppy and run "part"
it is easy to use and handles linux and ntfs partitions with eaze
have a nice day! :)
I have downloaded the Ranish Partition utility and will try it out...Thank you FoBoT...