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From: leo@ashtate (Leo C.P. Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Something to delete non-DOS partitions on a disk??
Message-ID: <1990Dec2.000354.2647@ashtate>
Date: 2 Dec 90 00:03:54 GMT
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>>From article <2732@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx>, by josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila):
>>> 
>>>   Hi, Does anybody knows something to erase non-DOS partitions on a hard disk ?
>
>No.  FDISK only deletes DOS partitions.
>
>Note that low-level format has nothing to do with the dos FORMAT
>program.  If you don't have a low-level format program, all I can say
>is contact the people you bought the drive from.  (They (IMHO) should
>have included it, but...)
>
>There may exist programs to make this easier, but I don't know of any.

  a non-dos partition can only be created by a different OS like OS/2
  or by a Third party HD software vendors like disk Manager.

  1) Use the software with which the non-dos partition was created
     and delete the partition (The hard part is to find out what software)
  2) Use FDISK to create the extended partition and then FORMAT iT!!!
     The format will make sure that BAD sectors gets recorded.
 - Leo -
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