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From: backstro@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (John Q. Public)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Removing non-DOS partition
Message-ID: <1692@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 3 May 88 03:22:11 GMT
References: <290@unisv.UUCP> <1479@edison.GE.COM> <5134@bcsaic.UUCP>
Reply-To: backstro@silver.UUCP (John Q. Public)
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Organization: Indiana University BACS, Bloomington
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Keywords: IBM PC, fdisk, partition, delete
Summary: Disk Manager, or p/d MINIX utils work

In article <5134@bcsaic.UUCP> paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen) writes:
>In article <1479@edison.GE.COM> rgc@edison.GE.COM (GENIUS Open Architecture) writes:
>>                      Does anyone know how to delete a partition
>>> that FDISK declares untouchable because it is type "UNKNOWN"?
>>
>
>It turns out the way to remove a Xenix partition is to boot Xenix from
>floppy and use the Xenix fdisk program.
>
If you're using DOS, and want to play it safe, look into a copy of Disk
Manager by OnTrack.  It allows use of large hard drives much as DOS 3.3
does, supports low-level formatting, and manipulation of the partition
table -- addition and deletion of partitions.  It has caused me no
problems. (I have no connection with OnTrack).

If you're adventurouse, several fdisk-type programs were posted in
comp.os.minix for people who needed to add non-DOS partitions.
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backstro@silver.bacs.indiana.edu