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by abrar hazarika 1 view

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I have a linux machine (old one). I installed linux in it. Hard disk is 3.1 GB. NOw i want to uninstall linux and load windows. But while using fdisk from A:\ drive to remove the partitions it showed 3o4oMB Non Dos partition and 51MB Non dos partionwith 51 MB drive as active. And no logical dos drives. But when i tried to delete the ext dos partition it says "cannot delete ext dos when logical dos drives are present" but there are no logical dos drives present.

Now i cannot do anything neither load linux nor install windows .
Please help. Thanks in advance.

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by saihib

fdisk doesn't always do what you want. Get on the Internet and do a search for delpart.exe There are many places to download it from and it's free. This will destroy all partitions on your disk allowing you to reformat it and install Windows.

by abrar hazarika

thanks a lot. it worked for me. also i would like to share i found a app called killhdd.bat at computing.net site. thought you can check it out

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