Joe said...
>I recently played around with Linux, and partitioned my HD into 4. I
>reinstalled Windows months ago, deleted all partitions, and created one
>new partition for Win 98.

>However using a program called PC Doctor, it reports I still have 4
>partitions, with three being empty.

>Is there a way of joining these 4 partitions?

Symantec make a utility called GDISK. I find it more powerful than FDISK. If you download it from here,
http://drd.dyndns.org/gdisk.html
make a bootable floppy with the files extracted to it. Boot the PC and type at the A:\ prompt GDISK 1 /DEL /ALL
This will delete all partitions regardless of O/S. Next type GDISK 1 /mbr
will reinitialise your masterboot record. the number 1 is signifies the primary disk, if you wanted to use it on a secondary disk, you would have to change the value.

Hope it helps.

Regards Roger.

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