* * Chas wrote: Download any live Linux distro with cfdisk (eg. The minimal install iso for gentoo located here: ). Windows 10 enterprise ltsb edition. Burn the iso to a cd and reboot with the cd inserted. Follow the instructions on screen to get to a command prompt. Type cfdisk, this will allow you to delete/create any partitions you want. Cfdisk has a nice ncurses based GUI and is very intuitive, it's also free and not crippled like MS's implementation of fdisk (MS's version only allows FAT32 partions up to 32GB, etc.).

Bobby 28/5/2005, 14:03 น. 'Bobby' wrote in message news:Wq6dnYyIgPEGQQXfRVn-jw@comcast.com. > Do an FDISK, wipe out all partitions, then create a single partition and > format that.

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Thanks for the suggestion but no, Fdisk isn't removing the IBM hidden partition. I tried to make a dual boot system, Win98SE/XP on a new blank Toshiba 40g HDD. I installed XP from a set of IBM X31 Recovery CDs. After that was all configured, I created an 8g FAT32 partition and installed Win98SE using System Commander. Both partitions were hidden from each other and both ran OK. I had problems with X31 drivers for Win98SE and gave up on the project.

Now I'm trying to wipe the HDD and use it in another system. When I ran Fdisk it showed 3 NTFS partitions which I deleted: 1 53 MB - I'm guessing that this was a hidden partition. 2 8000 MB - Win98SE?? Some how got converted to NTFS??? 3 18952 MB - XP Partition This shows as 35075 MB (or 36779 MB depending on how you're measuring MBs) Where is the rest of the space? I had a similar problem with a SCSI HDD and had to do a low level format to recover all the space.

DeeBat 29/5/2005, 17:24 น. Slide puzzle python code samples free. I'm curious, what was the total 'Free Space' reported by Fdisk after you deleted all the partitions? Is this the 35075 MB or 36779 MB you reported in your post?

One possibility is that the IBM's Hidden Partition was created with Fdisk from OS2 or Unix or Linux. It's possible that Microsoft's Fdisk cannot change a partition created thus. Are you sure that Toshiba's 40 MB rating is a 'formatted' rating, and not an 'unformatted' rating, which would result in a formatted rating of approximately 20% less? Could you possibly have bad sectors on your hard disk? Below is a link to hard disk reference guide: * * Chas 29/5/2005, 18:17 น.

'Nicholas Andrade' wrote in message news:%u4me.2722$rY6.530@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com. > * * Chas wrote: > > > Could some kind soul tell me an easy way to format an X31 HDD with XP > > and an IBM Hidden Partition. > > > > I just want to clean the whole drive and remove all partitions. > > > > I've RTFM and spent several hours on Google and only found complicated > > answers about reinstalling or warnings of dire consequences, no How To > > Without Any Problems advice. (Drop spamski to E-mail me) > Download any live Linux distro with cfdisk (eg.