its reccomended you use the linux fdisk to work with linux partitions.. but you can still do it with dos fdisk .. make sure to delete any logical drives before deleting the extended partition.
if possible, use partition magic...makes life easier :) nate On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, pplaw wrote: pplaw >debs, pplaw > pplaw >i've been using a few boxes at work for learning and using pplaw >dlinux. before i roll out a new box (for myself), i need to pplaw >make the ones i had been using 100% windoze--or in other words, i pplaw >need to free-up the part of the hard drives linux was using. pplaw >with the rescue disk, i already deleted the linux pplaw >partition/data; but after i formatted c:\, i still get a pplaw >extended partition that fdisk cannot delete. (example: in one pplaw >of the boxes, i have a 2.5gb hard drive. i used 2gb for hda1 and pplaw >swap, leaving .5gb for windoze. after reformatting, i still only pplaw >show c:\ as being .5gb, instead of 2.5gb. i need c:\ to see the pplaw >other 2gb.) pplaw > pplaw >so what's the proper way to uninstall debian linux? pplaw > pplaw >(the sooner i figure this out, the sooner i can _install_ slink pplaw >in the new box.) pplaw > pplaw >ia, t. pplaw > pplaw >-- pplaw > pplaw > pplaw > pplaw > pplaw > >> Bentley Taylor << pplaw > ______________ pplaw > [EMAIL PROTECTED] pplaw > pplaw > pplaw > pplaw >-- pplaw >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null pplaw > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 3:11pm up 176 days, 3:26, 1 user, load average: 1.06, 1.03, 1.00
