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reset partition to allow format of hard drive

ok, here is my question.

I want to format a hard drive on a very old pc. I've formatted hard drives before without any problems.
This is an HP Vectra vl. I have a boot disk and I'm able to get to the command prompt. My problem is with the lpartitioning. The system will not allow me to re-partition the hard drive. When I attempt to delete the primary dos partition I recieve a message saying cannot delete Primary Dos Partition on drive 1 when an extended dos partition exist. So when I try to delete the extended partition I recieve the same message referring to the Primary Petition.

Any sugguestions???

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nobus

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ravisimpi

Get a Disk manager appropriate to your hard drive and repartition your entire hard drive.

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cyrnel

BTW, the debug sequence is from an old MS technote that's survived scribbled in my configuration notes. The current version:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;106419

cyrnel

LucF, He just needed to clear the partition entry. Any number of enhanced-fdisk utilities can do the job. Debug works great and everybody has it. A format/wipe is overkill.

Dave