EXTENDED PARTITION ERROR

[Guest_imported]

Hi,

I posted a problem a few pages back about not being able to FDISK a hard drive. The drive used to have Linux on it and I just want to delete everything and re--partition. However, I cannot reomve the Extended partition in FDISK because it says there is a Logical Drive defined ... but when I go into remove the logical drive FDISK says there is not one there. I can't boot into Linux because it is corrupt. You good people had some good advice ... but I have now found out through running a utility that I downloaded, that the Extended partition has a bad "end of cylinder marker" ... so the disk cannot be read. I was wondering if anyone knew of a utility I could download (and where from) that would allow me to either repair the disk, or just fry the disk so the computer will think it is blank?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Many thanks,
CatFunt

 

[jschrie]

If you persist with a Win98 version of FDISK, it should work. Also use the command "fdisk /mbr" to remove LILO from the MBR.

If you want to pay for it... Power Quest Partition Magic 6 will definitely solve the problem, it can see every type of partition except for Windows 2000/NT Server drives (don't ask me why, it just won't.)

jschrie@hotmail.com

 

[osuman]

You should be able to get a free zero-fill utility from your HD manfacturer. These are relatively safe programs that write zeros to every sector on the drive. This wipes out all partition information and boot records (not to mention data.)