RE: help me please

hsmith@dockside.co.za
Thu, 04 Feb 1999 15:28:27 +0200 (SAST)


in fdisk there in the delete partition option there is a delete NON-DOS
partition .. use that :)

Henti

On 04-Feb-99 Roshan D'souza wrote:
> I have install linux on my machine, but I want to uninstall it..I have a
>
> problem can you help me out please.
>
> * I had made two partitions , one as primary and other as extended
> * I have Windows 98 on my primary partition
> * I install RedHat Linux software by making use of the space available
> in the extended partition.
> * During the installation procedure I created two partitions one as
> linux native and the other as linux swap partition
> * It showed me that I had three partition
> hda1->Windows 98
> hda5->Linux Native
> hda6->Linux swap
> * I put the linux boot up procedure in the boot sector
> * When I start the machine it asks me to boot from 98 or linux
> * I use Linux and it works fine
> * But when I use Windows98 it hangs at the 'findfast' program, after I
> kill the findfast program it works out fine, but once I start the
> Windows Explorer it goes into a total hang.
>
> Now I have two options in life
> 1) To have both linux and Windows 98, with the problem solved that for
> Windows98 of the program going into a hang
> 2) To remove linux completely and revert back to the original status.
>
> I certainly want the first option, but I can't take care of Windows98. I
>
> guess its a Windows98 bug...I don't mind if I have to use Windows 95 to
> get over this problem.
> The last option was to uninstall linux. I used the fdisk utility of Dos,
>
> to remove the extended partition, but it said that there were logical
> disk drives in it, when I tried to remove the logical disk drives it
> said it couldn't find one.
> The other thing is that fdisk showed me just two partitions, one was
> primary and extended partition, but it didn't show me there was a swap
> partition as well.
>
> I think I have frame my problems, please......, can you help me ... mail
>
> me the solution at (Roshan@MahindraBT.com)
>
> Waiting for your help
> Regards,
> Roshan
>
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