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From: tom@tandon.UUCP (Tom Friel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Zapping a partition
Message-ID: <19@tandon.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 91 16:34:50 GMT
References: <140700040@cdp> <1991Apr1.134345.9575@news.larc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: tom@.UUCP (Tom Friel)
Organization: Tandon Computer Corporation
Lines: 16

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>>Somehow we've gotten a huge non-dos partition on our hard
>>drive.  FDISK and Norton refuse to delete it.
>>
>>Is there a program that will zap it? 

Our Tandon DOS offers a utility that replaces FDISK called FXPREP.  It has
an undocumented option "-s" that we call "slam mode": it will allow one to
delete any partition.


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