had disk on a win98 pc. Help! (microshaft's is useless in windows and web support is down)

Drive has two partitions - one win/dos and other non-dos (unreadable via pc) and I wanted to junk the non-dos one to reclaim the other half.

I vaguely remember fdisk from early days but that's a while ago ;D

TIA

Apple

 

update 1...

managed to junk non-dos partition (ntfs) but don't know how to get fdisk to make one partition of all drive rather than keep giving me two halves (the old partition sizes)

it won't let me delete primary dos partition (says drive can't be locked ) so can't get out of 614 / 604 sized partitions when I want one 1278Mb partition


Apple

 

Apple,

you can only destructively delete the first partition with FDISK - you can't keep the operating system intact and expand the partition. To delete the first partition, create a bootable floppy contaning FDISK and boot from that.

If you do want to keep the existing OS then you will need to install something like Partition Magic (GBP45-99 from Jungle) to do the job.

mb

 

boomer,

thanks for that - I'll try the boot disk option to see if I get any joy

I'm nt bothered about any data on the drive - just want to be able to access the complete space on it.

Apple

 

boomer

great suggestion - the boot disk for fdisk finally worked and after a few blue screens of death, the pc seems to have sorted out the drive letters and the new drive is readable

thanks

Apple

 

Best way to keep your info is use Partition Magic or similar.

 

Yep Partition magic, let me know if you need an evaluation disk

 

ktulu

thanks for the offer of a disk - as it's sorted now I'm ok for a bit and hopefully won't need to do any more sortingout until I upgrade the pc ian approx 6 months.

had a look on amazon and it's about 33 quid for v7 - could be tempted later

btw is ntfs windows nt file system, i.e. just applies to pcs running nt?

thanks

Apple

 

Apple

used in NT and derivatives eg Win 2000, XP