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by housedoc1800s 1 view

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fdisk/remove partition
partition information
partition status type mbytes system usage
D: 1 Pri Dos 7154 Fat 32 49%
2 Ext Dos 7499 51%
Total disk space is 14653 Mb
The extended drive contains logical DOS Drives
Do you want to display logical drive information (y)enter. No logical drives defined.
went to option 3 Delete logical DOS Drives in the extended Dos partition again it tells me no logical drives are defined. HOW DO I DELETE THIS PARTITION

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by thechas

It sounds like a partition manager was used to create the logical drive, or it is an ntsf drive.

Check out this link for a lot of fdisk information.
http://www.fdisk.com/fdisk/

The first thing I would try is to use the mbr switch fdisk \mbrthis repairs the master boot record on the drive.

There is also a Tech Republic article on accessing ntsf partitions from a dos boot disk.
You might give the tips in there a try.

by housedoc1800s

the partition was created during a failed instalation of mandrake. which is why I had trouble reaching that partition in windows. I used DELPART .EXE From http://www.fdisk.com/fdisk/
It instantly deleted the drive extension. now I am looking at a clean 15gig drive thanks.

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