Topic: delete linux partition

[Daniel M]

How do i delete the partition e-smith has made on my hard drive?

I am ditching the e-smith and want to use the hard drive for a Windows application.

When I fdisk the hard drive, i get a logical drive that's 100% of the disk size labeled " * Remote * " and fdisk will not accept that as an acceptable volume label.

I just want to delete this damn logical drive!!!!

thanks

[Rick]

http://www.ntfaq.com/download/delpart.exe


this is a very easy to use application which will clear all partition information

[Johan]

Hello Daniel,

from the dos promt

a:>  fdisk /mbr

You must have a dos/windows boot disk

This command write's a new Master Boot Record to your harddisk

Good luck

Johan

[RayG]

I have had less luck with the /mbr option recently. I did find an up to date version of FDISK on the freedos.org web site and it recognised the LINUX partition for what it was. All the standard FDISK options were available and worked perfectly on three drives that the MSDOS FDISK utility, including the /mbr option, wouldn't fix.

[Dan Brown]

/mbr does *not* delete partitions; it only rewrites the master boot record.  To delete the partitions, you'll need an intelligent partitioning program, which excludes the standard DOS FDISK.EXE.  I've had generally good luck with Partition Magic, but there are others out there.

[Michael Smith]

Depending on the drive manufacturer, you should be able to get drive utilities that will perform a function called something like "write zeroes" ... this will destroy EVERYTHING on the drive and render it a "tabula rasa."

[Charlie Brady]

Dan Brown wrote:

> /mbr does *not* delete partitions; it only rewrites the
> master boot record.  To delete the partitions, you'll need an
> intelligent partitioning program, which excludes the standard
> DOS FDISK.EXE.  I've had generally good luck with Partition
> Magic, but there are others out there.

This is both quick and reliable, from the linux command line:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=1 of=/dev/hda

Charlie

[Ed Form]

Dan Brown wrote:
>
> /mbr does *not* delete partitions; it only rewrites the
> master boot record.  To delete the partitions, you'll need an
> intelligent partitioning program, which excludes the standard
> DOS FDISK.EXE.  I've had generally good luck with Partition
> Magic, but there are others out there.

A Windows 2000 install will allow you to remove the partition when you get to the 'Where do you want to put the Windows install screen.

Ed Form