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Old 22-02-2009, 10:19   #10
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Re: Hard Disk Problem

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Originally Posted by itsbroke View Post
This brings back memories lol! The problem you experienced was actually common around a decade or so ago when PC's moved over to NTFS. There was in fact a windows utility available then that allowed you to remove all partitions and effectively wipe the disc clean, but the name escapes me, will probably come when it hits my memory reserves lol You would have though had to maka a boot disc, commonly a 3.5' 1.44 floppy but I suspect it would have worked fine copied onto a dos boot CD which is fairly easily obtainable (still). Actually while writing this the old grey matter has had a sudden burst - I think the utility was called delpart.exe
fdisk is probably what you are thinking about... Ahh the good 'ol days...
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