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by sysadmin 1 view

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I have got 2 hard disks in the system. one of them has windows 98 and other linux.
the linux partitions are
root, boot, home, data,swap.
i am trying to remove linux. by using bootable disk of windows 98 but i am unable to delete the extended partition, but rest non-dos partition could be removed, it says that there is logical drive, but when i am checking for logical drive it shows no logical drives. when i tried using bootable linux Cd it says for new installation or upgradation, i delete the partition through disk druid but the partition gets reset.i am not proceeding further with linux after deleting the partition it wants me to define the partition mount point .

please advise me or give suggestions

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by lmon

with the 98 cd you are selecting fdisk right?

It should allow give u the options to see what extended or logical drives are currently on their right now. select which should be option 4. Once you have what they are pre esc then I think 3 then select wheter they are active dos, non-active, or logical. I think you will using active dos then delete you can recreate them.

by daw1

Use windows 98 boot disk with the undocumented fdisk /mbr and it will rewirte the master boot record and you will need to repartition the drive using fdisk. After using fdisk /mbr you will need to reboot. Be sure you have the right drive or Windows will be damaged.

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