byron@eosp1.UUCP (Byron Han) (07/12/84)
subject: Summary of Departitioning Problem Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc I earlier posted an article concerning my difficulties with departitioning a 10Mb hard disk. 3M was partitioned to the UCSD p-System and I couldn't unpartition it because I had lost our copy of the p-System. I would like to say that the problem is resolved. I received the solution from two people at Bell Labs and also from my dealer (not an IBM Product Center, but they did a good job anyway). Procedure to COMPLETELY departition your disk.............. Use the ADVANCED DIAGNOSTICS program from IBM to reformat the entire hard disk. This format command differs from the DOS format command in that the Advanced Diagnostics format rewrites the boot track and hence also destroys all partition data. Then one uses the DOS FDISK command to partition the disk for DOS only and following that, issue the DOS FORMAT command to prepare the hard disk for use again. -------------------------------------<bh>-------------------------------------- In-Real-Life: Byron Han USENET: allegra!princeton!eosp1!byron Exxon Office Systems BITNET: 6017040@PUCC (out of money) 500 College Road East TS2552@OHSTVMA (I'm not there) Princeton, NJ 08540 609-734-9200 ext. 229