re: Win98 and Hard Disc Partitions
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 12:03 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bob wells
(1351 messages posted)
Fdisk will safely remove the Partition, but all you will have is 2GB unallocated
space.
FDISK CANNOT be used on any partition, for any reason, other than checking the status
of the Partition without, TOTAL LOSS OF DATA.
You cannot use FDISK to merge PARTITIONS.
Your EXTRA Partition did not come from a failed installation of Windows on Drive
C:\ unless C:\ did not have enough space for the OS files.
You would have gotten an error message if enough space was not available during set-up
of the OS.
Copy the contents of the D:\ drive to other media/Drive, then use fdisk to partition
and format the D:\ drive, and copy the data back to D:\
AGAIN, Running FDISK will DESTROY ALL DATA on the Partition/Drive. IT cannot make
un-accessable data, accessable again.
BW
There's nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you.
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On Friday, October 19, 2007 at 9:01 am, Alan wrote:
>I have a similar problem to that recounted by Jonathan
>
>(see http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t1189512931/)
>
>I too have an unwanted partition and wonder whether I can safely use FDISK to remove
>it.
>
>After an attempt to install Win98SE on top of a previous Win98 installation I find
>I have a second partition on one of my physical hard discs, a Western Digital 40GB
>drive. The disc now has a 1st partition which FDISK says is "non DOS", about 2GB,
>with no logical drive letter; and a 2nd partition which FDISK says is "PRI DOS",
>about 4MB, and assigned the logical drive letter D:.
>
>The Win98SE installation failed because the version I have is not for upgrade but
>new installation only so I re-installed Win98. Now Win98 lists a D: drive in Windows
>Explorer or My Computer but cannot access it. DOS cannot access it either.
>
>I have run Seagate disc diagnostic tools which find no error in the disc nor its
>file structure (FAT32) and correctly reports about 18GB used on the disc.
>
>I have also run a freeware utility called "Readntfs" which reports that there is
>an unused second partition of 8MB on my Primary Master drive! FDISK does not find
>this one.
>
>So, will it be safe to delete the unwanted partition on my Western Digital drive,
>and if I do this will I regain the ability to access the data on the second partition?
>Is it safer to use (say) Boot It Next Generation to delete the partition, rather
>than FDISK?
>
>Incidentally, to answer a question posed by gewg, 7Tools Partition Manager demo
version
>allows all functions to be tried out in a "virtual pre-execution" but not actually
>applid to make physical changes to the disc (according to the information shown
when
>dowloaded, installed and launched).
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