ching@brahms.amd.com (Mike Ching) (04/02/91)
In article <valley.670507690@gsbsun> valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) writes: >crosenberg@cdp.UUCP writes: > > >>Somehow we've gotten a huge non-dos partition on our hard >>drive. FDISK and Norton refuse to delete it. I've tried to >>mess up the partition table with DEBUG but am either missing >>it, or there is an extra copy I don't know about...anyway >>FDISK still keeps seeing that non-dos partition. > >>Is there a program that will zap it? Does anyone know how >>to totally munge the partition table and all copies so that >>nothing can recognize them? (we are beyond caring about >>the data). > >Well, there is always low-level formatting... > >But seriously, I've often wondered if there was a program that would >just edit the partition table w/o regard to who supposedly "owns" a >given paritition. Is there? I use a version of FDISK written for the Minix operating system that tries to recognize all partition types, DOS, OS/2, MINIX, XENIX, etc. Mail me it you want it. Mike Ching ching@amd.com
tom@tandon.UUCP (Tom Friel) (04/03/91)
>> >>Somehow we've gotten a huge non-dos partition on our hard >>drive. FDISK and Norton refuse to delete it. >> >>Is there a program that will zap it? Our Tandon DOS offers a utility that replaces FDISK called FXPREP. It has an undocumented option "-s" that we call "slam mode": it will allow one to delete any partition. -- Tom Friel | Tandon Computer Corporation | (805) | tom@quad1.UUCP | 609 Science Drive Moorpark, CA 93021 | 378-7881 | tom@quad.com | Moorpark, CA 93021 |__________| UUCP: ..psivax!quad1!tandon!tom ..psivax!quad1!tom