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From: ns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Nick Solntseff)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Something to delete non-DOS partitions on a disk??
Message-ID: <275AAB10.26335@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 3 Dec 90 19:44:15 GMT
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In article <1990Dec2.000354.2647@ashtate> leo@ashton.UUCP (Leo C.P. Leung) writes:
>>>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.
>>
>>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.
>
I have used Zenith Data System's PART (FDISK equivalent) to delete both
MS-DOS and non-MS-DOS partitions.  If you can borrow the utility from
someone who owns a ZDS computer, you can do what you want.

Nicholas