josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila) (11/28/90)
Hi, Does anybody knows something to erase non-DOS partitions on a hard disk ? Thanks in advance..... Jose A. Vela Avila. josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx
mendi@netcom.UUCP (Greg Mendizabal) (11/28/90)
From article <2732@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx>, by josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila): > > Hi, Does anybody knows something to erase non-DOS partitions on a hard disk ? FDISK wouldn't? (I can't recall off-hand--I dealt with this prob before--either FDISK fixed it or a reformat did!!!!) GRM
swh@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Steve Harrold) (11/28/90)
>>> Hi, Does anybody knows something to erase non-DOS partitions on a hard disk
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Use the Norton Utilities, 4.5 or later.msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S. Pereckas) (11/29/90)
In <17623@netcom.UUCP> mendi@netcom.UUCP (Greg Mendizabal) writes: >From article <2732@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx>, by josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila): >> >> Hi, Does anybody knows something to erase non-DOS partitions on a hard disk ? >FDISK wouldn't? (I can't recall off-hand--I dealt with this prob before--either >FDISK fixed it or a reformat did!!!!) No. FDISK only deletes DOS partitions. I ran into this problem a few years ago, and the only way I know of is to do a low-level format, then use fdisk, then format. (if you have data on that disk, back it up carefully before doing this!) Note that low-level format has nothing to do with the dos FORMAT program. If you don't have a low-level format program, all I can say is contact the people you bought the drive from. (They (IMHO) should have included it, but...) There may exist programs to make this easier, but I don't know of any. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Pereckas * InterNet: m-pereckas@uiuc.edu * just another student... (CI$: 72311,3246) Jargon Dept.: Decoupled Architecture--sounds like the aftermath of a tornado
mendi@netcom.UUCP (Greg Mendizabal) (11/29/90)
From article <1990Nov28.161732.28645@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, by msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S. Pereckas): > >>FDISK wouldn't? (I can't recall off-hand--I dealt with this prob before--either >>FDISK fixed it or a reformat did!!!!) > > No. FDISK only deletes DOS partitions. That's what I thought I'd remembered. So my conclusion is that it was indeed a LLformat I did for them. It was a brand new HD so it didn't matter. Oh well. One could always use a sector editor to erase the existence of the partition and patch up the other one :-) Thanks for clearing up my thoughts. GRM > > There may exist programs to make this easier, but I don't know of any. > > > -- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael Pereckas * InterNet: m-pereckas@uiuc.edu * > just another student... (CI$: 72311,3246) > Jargon Dept.: Decoupled Architecture--sounds like the aftermath of a tornado
ndh@stl.stc.co.uk (Neale D Hind ) (11/29/90)
In article <1990Nov28.161732.28645@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S. Pereckas) writes: > >No. FDISK only deletes DOS partitions. > It may therefore be possible to use Norton's partition editor to mark the non-dos partition as a dos partition and then use fdisk to delete it. Just an idea, but a potentially dangerous one! (dos may refuse to boot if it can't understand what it is being told is a dos partition that isn't) ---- Neale D. Hind - (N.D.Hind@stl.stc.co.uk)
etxsral@california.ericsson.se (Lars Nilsson TN97308) (11/30/90)
In article <1990Nov28.161732.28645@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S. Pereckas) writes: >In <17623@netcom.UUCP> mendi@netcom.UUCP (Greg Mendizabal) writes: > >>From article <2732@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx>, by josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila): >>> >>> Hi, Does anybody knows something to erase non-DOS partitions on a hard disk ? > >>FDISK wouldn't? (I can't recall off-hand--I dealt with this prob before--either >>FDISK fixed it or a reformat did!!!!) > >No. FDISK only deletes DOS partitions. > [stuff deleted] Try to use Diskmanager ( DM ) ,that program can erase non-dos partitions. -- Lars Nilsson Ericsson Telecom AB , Stockholm - Sweden E-mail: etxsral@california.ericsson.se Fidonet: Lars Nilsson @ 2:201/108.7
jsin@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Jonghoon Sin) (12/01/90)
In article <17664@netcom.UUCP> mendi@netcom.UUCP (Greg Mendizabal) writes: >> No. FDISK only deletes DOS partitions. >> There may exist programs to make this easier, but I don't know of any. > >That's what I thought I'd remembered. So my conclusion is that it was >indeed a LLformat I did for them. It was a brand new HD so it didn't matter. > Try simtel - in pd1:<msdos.dskutl>, there's a program called edpart.arc, which I've used before successfully to create/delete/modify non-DOS partitions for installing MINIX partitions on few dozen classroom computers. -- John Sin <jsin@janet.ucla.edu> ...!(uunet,ucbvax,rutgers)!seas.ucla.edu!jsin UCLA EE Dept. 53-109 Engr.IV Los Angeles, CA 90024 (213)206-7983
leo@ashtate (Leo C.P. Leung) (12/02/90)
>>From article <2732@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx>, by josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila): >>> >>> Hi, Does anybody knows something to erase non-DOS partitions on a hard disk ? > >No. FDISK only deletes DOS partitions. > >Note that low-level format has nothing to do with the dos FORMAT >program. If you don't have a low-level format program, all I can say >is contact the people you bought the drive from. (They (IMHO) should >have included it, but...) > >There may exist programs to make this easier, but I don't know of any. a non-dos partition can only be created by a different OS like OS/2 or by a Third party HD software vendors like disk Manager. 1) Use the software with which the non-dos partition was created and delete the partition (The hard part is to find out what software) 2) Use FDISK to create the extended partition and then FORMAT iT!!! The format will make sure that BAD sectors gets recorded. - Leo - mail to: leo@alexis.a-t.com
ns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Nick Solntseff) (12/04/90)
In article <1990Dec2.000354.2647@ashtate> leo@ashton.UUCP (Leo C.P. Leung) writes: >>>From article <2732@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx>, by josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila): >>>> >>>> Hi, Does anybody knows something to erase non-DOS partitions on a hard disk ? >> >>No. FDISK only deletes DOS partitions. >> >>There may exist programs to make this easier, but I don't know of any. > > a non-dos partition can only be created by a different OS like OS/2 > or by a Third party HD software vendors like disk Manager. > I have used Zenith Data System's PART (FDISK equivalent) to delete both MS-DOS and non-MS-DOS partitions. If you can borrow the utility from someone who owns a ZDS computer, you can do what you want. Nicholas
DO@cup.portal.com (JEFF SCOTT MARCUS) (12/04/90)
josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx writes: > Hi, Does anybody knows something to erase non-DOS partitions on a hard disk ? > Thanks in advance..... >Jose A. Vela Avila. I tried to email you but keep getting domain errors. I found just what you are looking for in the Usenet archives, it is called PARTITN. What you can do with it is change the unknown partition into an MSDOS partition and then use FDISK to delete the partition. It requires UUDECODE to process. I found it and downloaded it to my machine for you, give me a path this system can handle and its yours. Jeff Marcus sun!portal!cup.portal.com!do