f'n fdisk...

[goldboyd]

I was attempting to repartition a hd yesterday, and encountered a wierd problem and was wondering if anybody has seen this or knows why this happened?

the hd was a scsi, think it was a seagate, not sure, i worked on 30 something computers yesterday... It was supposed to be a 1 gig, but a dir showed the drive as 200 meg, so i go into fdisk and see 2 separate partitions. So i try to delete the second partition, but i get an error, cannot delete extended partition while logicial drives exist. Ok, no biggy, i go to delete the logical drive, but fdisk tells me no logical drives exist. hmmm, i reboot, hoping it will fix something, nope. i try to delete both the logical drives and extended partition multiple times, going nowhere, same error msgs...

eventually got the partitions deleted with another program, drive pro, but i'd like to know why fdisk couldn't do it.

thanks a lot

[LJE2]

Did you try "fdisk/mbr", this would have reset your master boot record, wiping out everything. Then you could do "fdisk" and set the partition and then a format.

[SteveC]

fdisk /mbr doesn't wipe out everything.... you don't loose anything by doing it (unless you have a virus in your boot sector). All it does is re-set the boot/partition sectors with clean ones.

Fdisk sometimes gets in a muddle, and the best thing to do is to use something like PQMagic. I don't know why fdisk does that, but it can be REALLY annoying.

Cheers,

Steve

[This message has been edited by SteveC (edited 06-25-99).]

[Steve R Jones]

Did you boot off a floppy and run fdisk off the floppy? If not, the system was trying to protect itsself from being killed while in use.

[blondini]

probably a non fat partiton like an NTFS partition thats got fdisk all flustered and confused