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May 15, 2001 at 12:39 PM
pinsky

Eliminating partitions on a disk

by pinsky . Updated 25 years, 1 month ago

I have 3 hard drives in my desktop system:
(1) a 2GB drive, which hosts the NT 4.0 operating sytem;
(2) an 8GB drive which was partitioned into 2GB primary partition and 6GB extended partition;
(3) a new 30GB drive.

I would like to utilize the 8GB drive as my system disk, with the o/s in one 8GB primary partition.

Using NT disk administrator, I have deleted the two partitions on the 8GB drive, but it still recognizes their existence and will not let me create a single 8GB partition.

I don’t have FDISK in my NT system, but I have a bootable W95 diskette and tried using that FDISK to do the job. However, the result was as with NT Disk Administrator – could not do it.

Is there a tool that I can buy or download that will dowhat I want?

I considered the utilities that are offered with McAfee and with Norton anti-virus, but I don’t know that they will do the job and I would prefer not to simply ‘buy and try’.

Thanks,
Charles Pinsky.

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