Michele,

Based on your description, I don't know whether the problem was with Linux
FDISK or with understanding how to use it. It may be appropriate to mention
also that there are actually three versions of FDISK utilities under Linux.
They are sort of "simple", "average", and "expert". The expert version does
a lot, but is rather cryptic to use.

A little information on partitions may be appropriate here also. A partition
table on a hard disk is a standard area that all manufacturers somehow
agreed to use as an identifier of how the disk is being used. The partition
table may contain up to 4 partitions. A partition can be primary or
extended. There can be only one extended partition per partition table. An
extended partition can contain logical drives. To delete an extended
partition, it is necessary to first delete the logical drive, and then
delete the partition itself. Thus, it is a two step process for an extended
partition with a logical drive.

Hope this helps explain some of the partition magic (pun intended).

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
I tried this disk, but I don't know if I was doing it right or not, because
it took me round and round in circles, just as the FDISK on my win98 floppy
does. This is how I did it, just in case I did it wrong. I booted to dos
command prompt. Typed A: Then typed FDISK

It showed as having 2 partitions.
The first, (must be this one) is fat32 (primary dos partition?) The second
doesn't mention too much, except that it is an extended partition.

I try to delete it, and it tells me that it can't delete it while logical
drives are there (or words to that effect) I try to delete the logical
drive, and  on one part of the screen it tells me no logical drives are
defined, and on the other part it tells me that the logical drive is
deleted.

M.Sayer

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