byron@eosp1.UUCP (Byron Han) (07/11/84)
<TAKE THIS BUG EATER> <<CHOMP>> I have an IBM-PC with a 10Mb hard disk in an IBM expansion unit. The disk is in excellent shape except for one small problem. Three megabytes of the disk were partitioned to the UCSD-p System some time ago before anyone here can remember. And now here is the root of the problem. We cannot recover the 3 M of disk space for use under DOS becuase we no longer have the p-System. We have tried the following to recover the disk space: a. Reformat the hard disk. This only reformatted the DOS partition, leaving the p-system partition intact. b. Use the FDISK command to set up the hard disk. This only allows one to delete a DOS partition and not another operating system's partition. c. Run the DIAGNOSTICS 2.02 program from IBM which should perform test on the hard disk. I was hoping that this would trash the second partition. No dice. d. Pray to the great Bit God. No response yet. I have called up the IBM Product Center and they haven't a clue. They were also rather unpleasant when they discovered that I did not purchase the PC from an IBM Product Center, but such is life. Does anyone out there in Net-Land know of any software routines that can get rid of an unwanted partition on the hard disk? Apparently none of the IBM supplied software will accomplish this. The only sure way of getting rid of the partition is to go out and spend $800 for a p-System (that we don't want or need) for the sole purpose of destroying the p-System partition on the disk. Please help. I am very anxious to get all of my disk back. ***** FREE MY MEGS! ***** -------------------------------------<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