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Subject:	Re: HARD: Trouble formating disk
From:	Marty Landman <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:35:47 -0400
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At 08:45 AM 6/19/02 -0400, you wrote:

>I have a second HD that has been broken up into 4 partitions.  I am unable
>to format the drive (wipe everything off and start over) using Partition
>Magic, Windows Format from the explorer, and fdisk/format from DOS.

Marshall, have you tried just booting from a startup disk, then running
fdisk and deleting the existing partitions on the drive?

**I'm sure you already know that you should be sure to back up anything on
that HD before doing this stuff, just want to reiterate this for the
record. 8^]

hth,
Marty

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