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sidney   10-28-2004 at 02:53:14 PM

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I started FDISK and followed the instructions on deleting the partition.
i deleted the primary part.
then tried to delete the ext. part. and it said cant delete while logical
drive exist.
tried to delete the logical and thats where i run into a problem.
it wont let me.

im trying to free up the whole drive to use for storage. is it something im
doing wrong.

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Philo   10-28-2004 at 06:54:15 PM
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sidney wrote:
> I started FDISK and followed the instructions on deleting the partition.
> i deleted the primary part.
> then tried to delete the ext. part. and it said cant delete while logical
> drive exist.
> tried to delete the logical and thats where i run into a problem.
> it wont let me.
>
> im trying to free up the whole drive to use for storage. is it something im
> doing wrong.


you cannot use fdisk...
use disk management

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sidney   10-28-2004 at 06:54:16 PM
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Thanks guy my problem is solved..

"philo" wrote:

> sidney wrote:
> > I started FDISK and followed the instructions on deleting the partition.
> > i deleted the primary part.
> > then tried to delete the ext. part. and it said cant delete while logical
> > drive exist.
> > tried to delete the logical and thats where i run into a problem.
> > it wont let me.
> >
> > im trying to free up the whole drive to use for storage. is it something im
> > doing wrong.
>
>
> you cannot use fdisk...
> use disk management
>
>
>

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