[pchelpers] Re: Boot Record

Be careful with this!  You said you had a windows partition on the drive 
already.  If you want to keep this, then do not use delpart.  You will need 
something like Partition Magic from powerquest to remove all the non-dos 
partitions, then fdisk /mbr to re-write the bits you need, then you will have a 
working windows drive.  You can re-size partitions with partition magic after 
you have recovered the drive.

If you want to scrap everything on the drive, then by all means, use delpart.

Nigel


Quoting Eric & Daphne Furman <dabaric@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> 
> Hi Cyril
> 
> I have a small program that will fix your problem. Linux is not DOS
> based.
> When you try to reload a DOS based program - or any other OP system -
> the
> partitions are not available. DelPart deletes ALL partitions on your
> HDD. I
> have it on a floppy and is only 768 bytes. Works like a charm. Given to
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