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Date: Wed, 11-Jul-84 15:10:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: eosp1.997
Posted: Wed Jul 11 15:10:01 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Jul-84 04:38:35 EDT
Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ
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I have an IBM-PC with a 10Mb hard disk in an IBM expansion unit.  The
disk is in excellent shape except for one small problem.

Three megabytes of the disk were partitioned to the UCSD-p System some
time ago before anyone here can remember.  And now here is the root of
the problem.  We cannot recover the 3 M of disk space for use under DOS
becuase we no longer have the p-System.

We have tried the following to recover the disk space:
	a. Reformat the hard disk.  This only reformatted the DOS
		partition, leaving the p-system partition intact.
	b. Use the FDISK command to set up the hard disk.  This only
		allows one to delete a DOS partition and not another
		operating system's partition.
	c. Run the DIAGNOSTICS 2.02 program from IBM which should
		perform test on the hard disk.  I was hoping that this
		would trash the second partition.  No dice.
	d. Pray to the great Bit God.  No response yet.

I have called up the IBM Product Center and they haven't a clue.  They 
were also rather unpleasant when they discovered that I did not purchase
the PC from an IBM Product Center, but such is life.

Does anyone out there in Net-Land know of any software routines that can
get rid of an unwanted partition on the hard disk?  Apparently none of
the IBM supplied software will accomplish this.  The only sure way of
getting rid of the partition is to go out and spend $800 for a p-System
(that we don't want or need) for the sole purpose of destroying the
p-System partition on the disk.

Please help.  I am very anxious to get all of my disk back.  

			***** FREE MY MEGS! *****


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