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From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: Zapping a partition
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Date: 1 Apr 91 12:08:10 GMT
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crosenberg@cdp.UUCP writes:


>An associate overseas posts this request for help:
>____________________________________________________________

>Somehow we've gotten a huge non-dos partition on our hard
>drive.  FDISK and Norton refuse to delete it.  I've tried to
>mess up the partition table with DEBUG but am either missing
>it, or there is an extra copy I don't know about...anyway
>FDISK still keeps seeing that non-dos partition.

>Is there a program that will zap it?  Does anyone know how
>to totally munge the partition table and all copies so that
>nothing can recognize them? (we are beyond caring about
>the data).

Well, there is always low-level formatting...

But seriously, I've often wondered if there was a program that would
just edit the partition table w/o regard to who supposedly "owns" a
given paritition.  Is there?