Jonathan de Boyne Pollard,

28-Oct-99 21:59:08, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to Andy Roberts
          Subject: M$ "screw you" FAT32

 AR>> I need to find out how to permanently get rid of a type "b" FAT32
 AR>> partition created with WIN95 OSR2.  I assume that is similar to a
 AR>> type "F" partition.

 JdBP> As PARTLIST will tell you, a type 0x0B partition is "32-bit FAT
 JdBP> < 2TB".

 AR>> I have a friend who just can't believe that his previous M$
 AR>> installations left a partition that consumes almost his whole HD
 AR>> and apparently can not be deleted permanently with other
 AR>> conventional software like OS/2 FDISK.

 JdBP> I am told that FDISK should be able to delete any partition of
 JdBP> any type, as long as the partition table itself is not
 JdBP> corrupted.

Perhaps it is corrupted.  That was a common problem on my ThinkPad when I had
both OS/2 and Win95 on it.  But still deleting everything and reformating
usually solved the problem at least temporarily.  Anyway with all the
suggestions to delete the whole MBR, I would think something should work.

 Jd\bp> Try

 JdBP> [A:\]FDISK /DISK:D /NAME:NNNNN /FSTYPE:H0B /DELETE

 JdBP> You must look up the disk D and the name NNNNN using FDISK
 JdBP> /QUERY.

I Forwarded your original msg to Dave Davidson.

                 Thanks and Good Luck,        Andy Roberts
                                              andy@shentel.net
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