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Departition problem solved! [message #72811] Sat, 25 May 2013 10:52
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Date: Thu, 12-Jul-84 12:28:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: eosp1.999
Posted: Thu Jul 12 12:28:18 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Jul-84 04:29:48 EDT
Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ
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subject: Summary of Departitioning Problem
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc

I earlier posted an article concerning my difficulties with
departitioning a 10Mb hard disk.  3M was partitioned to the UCSD
p-System and I couldn't unpartition it because I had lost our copy of
the p-System.

I would like to say that the problem is resolved.  
I received the solution from two people at Bell Labs and also from my
dealer (not an IBM Product Center, but they did a good job anyway).

Procedure to COMPLETELY departition your disk..............
Use the ADVANCED DIAGNOSTICS program from IBM to reformat the entire
hard disk.  This format command differs from the DOS format command in
that the Advanced Diagnostics format rewrites the boot track and hence
also destroys all partition data.  Then one uses the DOS FDISK command
to partition the disk for DOS only and following that, issue the DOS
FORMAT command to prepare the hard disk for use again.  


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