fdisk trouble

spikemerlin · #1 January 5th, 2005, 02:30 AM

look i basically need lots of help

i got this old computer with a version of win 98 and it doesnt work. a quick check yields that there are only two partitions a 100meg (primary) and a 16 meg (extended). however there is a total of 7 gig avaliable (not assigned to partition). you r probly thinking what a moron just delete them and assign it all to one large primary partition. however my problem is

i go to delete the extended drive.... cant do that because it says there are logical drives

go to delete logical drives .... wait a minute ...there are no logical drives (thats what fdisk says_

as you cannot delete the primary partition without removing extended drives i am totally stuck. (oh i also tried to create another logical drive and another extended drive....no luck.)

please help me

**degsy** · #2 January 5th, 2005, 04:29 AM

Welcome

If you know the make of the HDD then goto the manufacturers site and download their disk tools to partition and format.

or try
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html
http://www.ranish.com/part/
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

spikemerlin · #3 January 5th, 2005, 04:34 AM

thanks degsy for the tip i'll try it ill get back to you if it works

spikemerlin · #4 January 5th, 2005, 04:42 AM

ive tried the first link and downloaded the program onto floppy, seems to be working if i dont post again assume it works okay and thanks

**degsy** · #5 January 5th, 2005, 05:13 AM

it's a nice little utility. hope it works out for you