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From: rgc@edison.GE.COM (GENIUS Open Architecture)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Removing non-DOS partition
Message-ID: <1479@edison.GE.COM>
Date: 18 Apr 88 05:05:46 GMT
References: <290@unisv.UUCP>
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Organization: Somewhere in Virginia
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Summary: a similar event

In article <290@unisv.UUCP>, vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
> Someone managed to create a partition of unknown type on our PC/AT
> clone here at work, and the DOS FDISK program won't touch it.  I
> would like to delete the thing (It's 16 Meg!) but am kind of at a
> loss at the moment -- sure, I could low-level format the hard disk,
> but that seems excessive (not to mention being more work than I care
> to go to at the moment.)  Does anyone know how to delete a partition
> that FDISK declares untouchable because it is type "UNKNOWN"?

I had a similar experience with a split 20 Meg drive...
after using Norton and a variety of other tools, I reorted to
the low level format, FDISK then format...

If there is an easier way, I would like to know, too.

Thanks

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Rick Carl               GE Fanuc  -  Charlottesville, VA  22901
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