If anyone was at the Windows XP roll out you may have noticed that
during the demo when it came time to delete a partition  the operator
typed in gdisk at the command prompt. It seems that even microsoft
recognizes that gdisk is far superior to fdisk. gdisk is available on
the Norton Ghost disk. It is a command line utility. I never leave home
without a bootable dos 6.22 floppy disk with gdisk on it.

Harold Bush
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rob Shane
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:35 AM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Can't delete partion on SCSI hard drive


    I boot into dos and go to fdisk to try and delete the partion on a
SCSI hard drive. Everything appears to go ok until i restart the
computer and the partions are still there, same size and volume labels.
One primary and the other extended dos. I am even unable to just delete
the logical drive.
    I can however format the logical drive but have no access to the
primary partion. I get the message "Drive is not formated, do you want
to format now?" I try to format it and it doesn't complete. Windows
tells me that it was not able to complete the format and when trying to
do it from dos all i get it "Abort, Retry, Fail" at the prompt.

TIA

Rob Shane
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