hard drive format

[mindbullets]

hi, im trying to format a 20gb hard disk that ive been given ,using fdisk to delete the partitions on it ,ive deleted the primary DOS partition but i have 74% of the disk which is EXT DOS , which when i try to delete it ,it says "cannot delete extended DOS partition while logical drive exists "

ive gone through all the delete options and none of them seem to work ,so does anyone know what i need to do?

any advice much appreciated.

[KebabMeister]

Can't you format it via Windows?  (I assume your formatting via DOS?)

[Tim Baxter]

If I remember correctly your ext (extended) DOS partition will have been given a (logical) drive letter when it was originally created after the primary partition (C Drive).  Usually because the DOS/Win version would not support partitions lager than 4-5 Gig.  The drive letter (possibly d or e) needs to be deleted before fdisk will remove the partition.

I found it easier in the past to use a non-DOS partitioner like Novelle to remove stubborn partitions and then use DOS fdisk to partition and format.

[mindbullets]

ok thanks guys i think ive sussed it now