WDS – Unattended file – Removing /Formatting Drive Partitions
KB ID 0000490 Problem Over the last couple of years I’ve done a lot of imaging of School PC’s I don’t know why but they come with a myriad of different drive and partition configurations. Even big vendors like HP and Dell ship their machines with recovery partitions these days. If you are imaging with WDS this can cause a problem so what I usually want to do is remove all the partitions, create one big one that...
Removing Multiple Partitions from your Hard Drive Using FDISK
KB ID 0000082 Problem This section assumes you have multiple partitions, and goes through the steps needed to remove them using FDISK WARNING: Removing partitions DESTROYS all the data in those partitions, make sure you have a backup of your important information. For this example the hard drive in question has a PRIMARY partition (approx 2Gb) and two LOGICAL DRIVES (each approx 1Gb) if I’ve just confused the hell out of you...
Deleting Simple Partitions on your Hard Drive Using FDISK
KB ID 0000080 Problem You want to remove the partitions form your carved up hard drive. Solution Deleting a Partition 1. First ensure you have a windows 98SE Bootdisk, you can download one, CLICK HERE 2. Boot the PC with your boot disk, ENSURE the boot order is set in the BIOS to boot from the floppy disk BEFORE the hard drive 3.To launch FDISK simply type fdisk {enter} at the command prompt, when the program launches press the Y key...