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From: jsin@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Jonghoon Sin)
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Subject: Re: Something to delete non-DOS partitions on a disk??
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In article <17664@netcom.UUCP> mendi@netcom.UUCP (Greg Mendizabal) writes:
>> No.  FDISK only deletes DOS partitions.
>> There may exist programs to make this easier, but I don't know of any.
>
>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.
>

Try simtel - in pd1:<msdos.dskutl>, there's a program called edpart.arc, 
which I've used before successfully to create/delete/modify non-DOS 
partitions for installing MINIX partitions on few dozen classroom computers.

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