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From: ndh@stl.stc.co.uk (Neale D Hind )
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Subject: Re: Something to delete non-DOS partitions on a disk??
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Date: 29 Nov 90 09:37:38 GMT
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In article <1990Nov28.161732.28645@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S. Pereckas) writes:
>
>No.  FDISK only deletes DOS partitions.
>

It may therefore be possible to use Norton's partition editor to mark
the non-dos partition as a dos partition and then use fdisk to delete
it.

Just an idea, but a potentially dangerous one! (dos may refuse to boot
if it can't understand what it is being told is a dos partition that
isn't)


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