Brangwen
09-04-2001, 02:27 PM
Colleagues:
I installed a previously used HDD that had a boot (primary) partition along with several logical partitions as a slave on my secondary channel. I am using this drive mostly for data storage, but may utilize a partition or 2 down the road to install other OSs from which to boot. I utilized PQ Partition Magic to convert the boot/primary partition to a logical, as that partition was disrupting the partition lettering on my master (primary channel) HD. I used PQ's <u>Format</u> command to empty the data off the second HDD while keeping the partitions in place. I noticed the <u>extended</u> <u>partition</u> in the (one-time) boot partition remained, taking up a good amount of that partition's space. Is there a way to get rid of the extended partition w/o fdisking the whole drive, i.e., keeping the partitions in place?
Thx!
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[This message has been edited by Brangwen (edited 09-04-2001).]
I installed a previously used HDD that had a boot (primary) partition along with several logical partitions as a slave on my secondary channel. I am using this drive mostly for data storage, but may utilize a partition or 2 down the road to install other OSs from which to boot. I utilized PQ Partition Magic to convert the boot/primary partition to a logical, as that partition was disrupting the partition lettering on my master (primary channel) HD. I used PQ's <u>Format</u> command to empty the data off the second HDD while keeping the partitions in place. I noticed the <u>extended</u> <u>partition</u> in the (one-time) boot partition remained, taking up a good amount of that partition's space. Is there a way to get rid of the extended partition w/o fdisking the whole drive, i.e., keeping the partitions in place?
Thx!
Brangwen http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif
[This message has been edited by Brangwen (edited 09-04-2001).]