Logical DOS drive in Extended DOS Partition

Appreciate some assistance.

Have a hard drive that, while running FDISK, shows up as: Partition 1, Type: EXT DOS, Mbytes 1624, Usage: 100%

Trying to delete a logical DOS drive in the extended DOS partition. The drive appears as C:, the volume label appears as: *Remote*, Mbytes: 1624, System: Unknown, Usage: 100%.

Entered C: in the "What drive do you want to delete ", and it asks for the volume label. If you enter *Remote*, a message says volume label does not match. There is no other volume label.

Thoroughly confused......??!!??

Any suggestions as to how to get rid of everything in this drive and start it from scratch as a primary DOS partition?

Thank you for your help.

 

Try running this command line and see what it gives you for a volume label:

dir /s XXXX <enter>

The X's are of no value except to prevent the search from going beyond one screen full. You could also do DIR /S /P but no matter.

Look very closely at what DOS reports as the label. Pay special attention to any apparent spaces or strange characters.

If still no joy, you can try formatting the partition and that should give you the opportunity to relabel it when it finishes.

Good luck.

 

Thank you for your reply.

Tried out the suggestion, but no luck. Was directed towards something called DelPart. Checking it out, might do the job.

Have a good weekend.

 

Send me a mail with H0017 (those are zeros) as the subject. You will receive a tiny utility back by autoresponse within a half hour that will delete all partitions on any drive in one simple command from a boot disk.

Example: zapart 80 will delete all partitions on the Primary Master hard disk.