From: "Matthias Paul" Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:20:18 +0100 Subject: Re: fdisk from V#703 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-ID: <5F2C6A4423F@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 "Mark at Cross+Road's" wrote: > OK, I will try that and delete the "large" partition on drive C with either > fdisk or pqmagict and then go and create "two" new ones? However, what > about this little 7.8 mb mini partition which seems to be related to the > Compaq internal information? It didn't get removed when I re-formated the > drive in total? So I of course plan to leave it alone, and think that it > must be the "set-up" configuration program somehow held in there because I > can enter set-up via f10 at boot-up. This is fact a Compaq specific partition (the DR-DOS FDISK should tell you the type of the partition, or in case it does not know about it, its ID. In the latter case, please tell me this ID.) You should not remove this partition. Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html -------------------------------------------------------------------