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by macsuavity

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I have a few legacy pcs that have three partitions applied. I would like to delete these partitions and bring the pc back to 1 partition using FDISK. Can anyone give me instructions on how to carry out this operation.

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by dmiles

Insert the start up disk in floppy drive and cd-rom
Boot up computer and when you get to command prompt type in FDISK
This will bring up the fdisk utility window
Choose number four to view drive info
hit escape and then choose number three to delete the partitions
Choose the number to delete the type partitions that were listed in drive info window
hit escape after each deletion and then you will want to partition the hard drive after you have completed deleting partitions
now choose topartition the drive and hit escape.
Reboot the computer and at the command prompt type Format designated drive letter
Follow the on screen prompts.

by rick_b

The above answer is correct,
just remember some motherboards have size limitations for the hard drives.
Ex. 486's have a 540MB limatation, Some boards have a 2GB limit for the hard drives. Check out http://www.tomshardware.com/ for more information

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