Format drive

[OnDborder]

Ok, here's the problem..
I had 98se on the first 6.5gig on the drive and redhat 7 on the rest of a 60 gig.
I did "fdisk", it asked the y and n question for hd size, I choose y.
Nothing happened, blank, black screen with the cursor blinking in theupper left corner.
So I formatted c:, it only did the 6.5 of win98se.
So then I fdisk /mbr
Then format c: again, still only 6.5gig recognized.
Fdisk again, still no action.
What's up with this??

Help

 

[David]

Ok, here's the problem..
I had 98se on the first 6.5gig on the drive and redhat 7 on the rest of a 60 gig.
I did "fdisk", it asked the y and n question for hd size, I choose y.
Nothing happened, blank, black screen with the cursor blinking in theupper left corner.
So I formatted c:, it only did the 6.5 of win98se.
So then I fdisk /mbr
Then format c: again, still only 6.5gig recognized.
Fdisk again, still no action.
What's up with this??

Help

What were you trying to do?
I don't see why fdisk crashed, but why did you format c:? Are you trying to remove RedHat?

 

[OnDborder]

I was going to format the entire drive to sell to somebody.
I reinstalled win98 and partionmagic.
When I tried to run Partionmagic I got an error 117.
So then I looked into the PM partion info, I had 2 errors on the Linux drive and on (I forgot I did this) d:drive.
C:drive no errors
Linux 2 errors
D:2 errors

So now I'm reformatting d drive.
Is there anything I can do with the Linux?

 

[David]

The easiest option to reformat and repartition that drive would be involving linux fdisk - delete both partitions and make one new one, then reboot and format the new partition in DOS.

 

[OnDborder]

Linux fdisk?
How?
Would I have to reinstall Redhat? I ran fdisk mbr.

 

[David]

Linux fdisk?
How?
Would I have to reinstall Redhat? I ran fdisk mbr.

You wont be able to boot linux if you trashed the mbr

Try booting off of the Redhat Install CD and starting the rescue system. Type fdisk and press enter. Type h for help and p to display partition table. The help screen should tell you how to remove partitions - I cant remember the commands off the top of my head.

 

[OnDborder]

I've already started to reinstall Redhat, no biggie, then what?

 

[David]

Remove both partitions and make one new big one. reboot to dos and format the partition as FAT32, ready to sell.

 

[OnDborder]

There are actually 3 partitions c, d , linux.

Remove partitions through linux?
Ok, how?
I tried to fdisk through DOS in the beginning and it didn't work. All I got was a blinking cursor.

 

[Samurai_Punch]

You could always do a low level format... sounds like fun... if not extremely boring... your motherboard's bios may have an option to run a low level format, or there may also be one included w/ the hdd when you bought it... or from the hdd's manufacturer's site

 

[David]

OK. In linux type:
fdisk

Press
h
and then enter.

That will start fdisk for linux and display the help screen.

Or for easier use try:
cfdisk

Although you may not have cfdisk.

 

[OnDborder]

Ok, thanks.
I'll give it a shot..