Trouble formatting drive with 5.0 trial version on it

[jscottd]

I've got a PC I loaded with an education verion of Novell, just to play with.

I need to format the drive and put the computer to use.

Novell seems to have given the primary DOS partition a funny name with odd characters not on the keybaord, so I can't type them in when I try to delete using a W98 boot disk.

I used the 'label' program(from W98) to try to rename the volume, but it gives me an error saying it can't delete the old volume label.

Any suggestions?

 

[TheLad]

Try formatting it giving it a label of your choice, then deleting it.

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[jscottd]

It worked.

It was so obvious, too.

I had to go through the fdisk stuff again, but it works now.

Thanks.

 

[JBruyet]

I see you've already corrected your situation. FWIW, I use a program called zapdisk that wipes ALL partitions from a boot disk. I've used it for fat16, fat32, NTFS and Linux partitions. You can do a search from any search engine to find it, and it's even a free download.

HTH,

Joe Brouillette