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by abrar hazarika

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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. I created a logical dos drive with 20 MB of space and it was assigned drive letter C. After that while trying to delete that logical dos drive it gets deleted first but as soon as i hit escape button it comes back to show the particular C drive being present. It surely is very confusing for me.

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

PS: I couldn't decide to which category should this question fall into so i posted it both.

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by dmiles

Insert the Startup disk in A:\drive
Boot Computer
Type Fdisk,then select to view drive information
Hit esc,and choose the drive letter that is listed as logical and then try deleting the partition,hit ESC and now delete the extended partition with logical drive
Now delete the extended DOS partition
Hope this Helps

by abrar hazarika

thanks a lot. but not for the first part, i tried that and when it didnt work out i posted it. now delpart 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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