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- From: jpsum00@mik.uky.edu (Dark Knight)
- Subject: Re: Deleting HPFS partitions using DOS tools
- References: <1992Nov16.153459.15045@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:22:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.153459.15045@midway.uchicago.edu>
- pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov16.131302.22337@wam.umd.edu> adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al
- Dhir) writes:
- > Again, don't try
- > >to mess with your HPFS partitions using DOS fdisk, you're just going to
- > >end up pulling your hair out. So don't come crying to me when you are
- bald.
- > I can understand (DOS) FDISK being weird about it, but what I do not
- I just deleted a 202 Mb HPFS partition using FDISK. I could view the
- file system using view non system disk (4). FDISK even recognized my disk
- as being HPFS under file system. I don't know about the FDISK with DOS
- 5.0 as I was using the FDISK from DOS 6.0, but I assume that they are the
- same.
- Joey
- JPSUM00@ukpr.uky.edu
- JPSUM00@mik.uky.edu
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