Thank you for this information Roger,

I downloaded a copy, created a Win98 boot disc, including GDISK.

When I ran the command, GDISK /STATUS, it reported only 1 partition, not the
4 that PC doctor reports. Is this normal, as I do not want to rebuild my
compter again, and still have the 4 partitions.

Thank you in anticipation.

Regards,

Joe.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Griffiths" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Partitions


> 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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