[SATLUG] Hard drive partitioning

[henry.pugsley at gmail.com]

cfdisk -z will also start with a blank partition table (little safer than dd)

Keep in mind that older versioms of DOS/Windows have issues if the
first partition is non-DOS.

-Henry

On 11/20/07, Justin Burdette <justin.burdette at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got an older laptop with a 20GB drive in it. It's been running Debian 4
> for a while, but I needed to run some basic Windoze apps. Using gparted, I
> resized the hard drive partitions and used the 98SE boot disk to add a DOS
> partition, but now I can't do anything with the partition table. It's stuck
> with a primary DOS partition and an extended DOS partition, which it says
> has logical drives defined, but it can't see them for some reason. parted
> and gparted won't do anything with it because it says the partitions
> overlap, and FDISK on the 98 boot disk won't do anything either.
>
> Is there a way to just remove all of the partitions and start over?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Justin
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