Blowing away C:

[William W. Plummer]

I want to destroy all info on a 40 GB disk. There are three partitions,
NTFS and another "IBM Repair" partition formatted at FAT16. I thought it
would be easy to just boot my truty DOS 6.22 and reformat and/or use FDISK.
But those FORMAT fails to see the partitions and FDISK doesn't do anything.

Having thought about it, I believe it would be best to keep the IBM Repair
partition, but really want to flush the other two. Should I use the Win2K
format on disk properties? I'm not sure the machine will boot Win2K
anymore -- what should I use in that case? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

If you use a Win98 boot disk, you can get rid of those partitions with that version of FDISK. If you don't have one, put in your Win2K CD and boot from it... you can run the install up to the point where you kill the drive partitions or you can always try www.bootdisk.com in a pinch ;

Raymond

----- William W. Plummer wrote: ----

I want to destroy all info on a 40 GB disk. There are three partitions
NTFS and another "IBM Repair" partition formatted at FAT16. I thought i
would be easy to just boot my truty DOS 6.22 and reformat and/or use FDISK
But those FORMAT fails to see the partitions and FDISK doesn't do anything

Having thought about it, I believe it would be best to keep the IBM Repai
partition, but really want to flush the other two. Should I use the Win2
format on disk properties? I'm not sure the machine will boot Win2
anymore -- what should I use in that case? Thanks

 

[philo]

If you use a Win98 boot disk, you can get rid of those partitions

with that version of FDISK. If you don't have one, put in your Win2K CD and
boot from it... you can run the install up to the point where you kill the
drive partitions or you can always try www.bootdisk.com in a pinch

go the the site mentioned above

then go to the utilites page and get aefdisk

run aefdisk /delall it will delete *all* partitions

after that you may use fdisk and create in the normal fashion

 

[Enkidu]

I want to destroy all info on a 40 GB disk. There are three partitions,
NTFS and another "IBM Repair" partition formatted at FAT16. I thought it
would be easy to just boot my truty DOS 6.22 and reformat and/or use FDISK.
But those FORMAT fails to see the partitions and FDISK doesn't do anything.

Having thought about it, I believe it would be best to keep the IBM Repair
partition, but really want to flush the other two. Should I use the Win2K
format on disk properties? I'm not sure the machine will boot Win2K
anymore -- what should I use in that case? Thanks.

The DOS 6.22 disk should work. The partitions will however show up as
unrecognised or non-DOS partitions. I've deleted all sorts of
partitions with the DOS fdisk. Do they not show up at all?

Cheers,

Cliff

 

[lastcall]

yes, just boot with the win2k disc and from there you can format
and/or repartition your h/d. that's the easiest and quickest way to do
it.

 

[Ralph Farmer [MSFT}]

Place delpart on the dos disk and use it to delete the partitions.
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[Ralph Farmer [MSFT}]

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=103049
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