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- From: cj00+@andrew.cmu.edu (Carl B Jabido)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Deleting HPFS partitions using DOS tools
- Message-ID: <gf20MoS00WBNI4ualH@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 10:36:04 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.gf20MoS00WBNI4ualH
- Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- In-Reply-To: <1992Nov16.153459.15045@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.os2.misc: 16-Nov-92 Deleting HPFS
- partitions us.. by George Jetson@quads.uchi
- > I can understand (DOS) FDISK being weird about it, but what I do not
- > understand is why EDPART can't do the trick. And, in particular, why
- > EDPART returns with a "Controller error". What *does* OS/2 *do* to the
- > disk and/or controller, to make it inaccessible to DOS tools?
-
- Well, sorry if this doesn't answer anything, but 386BSD's disk
- partitioning stuff can erase HPFS partitions. One note though, OS/2
- fdisk can't seem to erase 386BSD's partitions! I used OS/2's fdisk,
- changed all the partitions, saved, etc, rebooted, and it booted under
- BSD! OS/2's fdisk didn't even destroy any data on the drive.
- Maybe as you go up in OS's (Dos-> OS/2 -> Unix) the partitioning of the
- hard drive gets more and more complex so as to render the older
- partitioning software useless.
- But then again, maybe not. Just a thought.
-
- Carl Jabido
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