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From: mendi@netcom.UUCP (Greg Mendizabal)
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Subject: Re: Something to delete non-DOS partitions on a disk??
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Date: 28 Nov 90 20:36:37 GMT
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From article <1990Nov28.161732.28645@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, by msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S. Pereckas):
> 
>>FDISK wouldn't?  (I can't recall off-hand--I dealt with this prob before--either
>>FDISK fixed it or a reformat did!!!!)
> 
> No.  FDISK only deletes DOS partitions.

That's what I thought I'd remembered.  So my conclusion is that it was
indeed a LLformat I did for them.  It was a brand new HD so it didn't matter.

Oh well.  One could always use a sector editor to erase the existence of the
partition and patch up the other one :-)

Thanks for clearing up my thoughts.

GRM
> 
> There may exist programs to make this easier, but I don't know of any.
> 
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