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FDISK for DOS Partition
(Current 6/04/03 bjm)

Obtain a DOS Boot Diskette from Systems

Delete Primary DOS Partition

1.      Insert DOS Boot Diskette into the floppy drive. Power on machine.

2.      At the DOS prompt, type:

fdisk and press the <Enter>key.

If the following message appears:

Your computer has a disk larger than 512 MB. This version of Windows includes improved support for large disks,
resulting in more efficient use of disk space on large drives,
and allowing disks over 2 GB to be formatted as a single drive.

Do you wish to enable large disk support (Y/N)?

Press the <Y> key. Press the <Enter> key.

The FDISK Options menu appears.

If you do not see the message the FDISK Options menu will appear without any prompting.

3.      Press the <3> key.

4.      Press the <Enter> key.
The Delete DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive menu appears.

5.      Press the <1> key to Delete Primary DOS Partition.

6.      Press the <Enter> key.

The Delete Primary DOS Partition menu appears.

Delete Primary DOS Partition

 
                Delete Primary DOS Partition

  

  
Current fixed disk drive: 1
 
Partition Status  Type     Volume Label  Mbytes  System   Usage
 C: 1        A    PRI DOS   PROGRAMS        500   FAT16     25%
 
Total disk space is 2012 Mbytes (1 Mbyte = 1048576 bytes)
 
WARNING! Data in the deleted Primary DOS Partition will be lost.
What primary partition do you want to delete..? [1]
 
 
Press Esc to return to FDISK Options
 

 

7.      Press the <Enter> key.
The message: Enter Volume Label appears

8.      Press the <Enter> key (The Volume Label is blank unless you specified one with a name).
The message: Are you sure(Y/N) appears.

9.      Press the <Y> key and then press the <Enter> key.
The message Primary DOS Partition deleted appears.

10.   Press the <Esc> key to continue.

11.   You are done.

 

 

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