Partition Problems...please help.

[i8mywindpipe]

Hello,

What sort of program can remove partitions made by FDISK.
I installed Linux (Mandrake 8.1) and Win98 Dual Boot. But now I cant remove the partition that linux was on.

I try to remove the logical drive but it says NO LOGICAL DRIVES EXIST.
Try to delete non-dos partition and says no.....

damn,
will a program like partition magic do it.
cuz at the moment i only have access to about 9.5 gig of a 15 gig HDD.

please help me

 

[i8mywindpipe]

In case you need to know.

MSI K7T Turbo-R
Duron 750MHz
448MB RAM
Maxtor Diamond Max 7200RPM 15GB
Leadtek GTS Ultra 64MB

 

[renorocks]

I have used partition magic for just your situation. Admittedly, I have not tried it on a Linux partition yet, but with drives that formerly had raid arrays on them. I got the same error you are talking about with fdisk, but partition magic took care of it.
One more point....I always run partition magic and drive image in dos with a bootable cd or win98 boot disk. The newer version of Partition Magic and Drive image supports NTFS partitions, but I'm not sure about Linux. It would stand to reason that if all you are doing is removing a non-dos partition you should be able to do this with partition magic.

Good luck

 

[Wolfsraider]

partition manager does too acording to This web site and its freeware


hope this helps