Deleting a paritition having Win XP using fdisk

spjoal · 07-08-2007, 12:56 PM

I have Mandriva 2006 running on my host. I have Win XP also installed.What do I need to do to delete XP from the partition table using fdisk.

This is what fdisk shows me when i "fdisk -l".

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 764 6136798+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 * 765 7295 52460257+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Thx for the help
Joe

pixellany · 07-08-2007, 01:07 PM

fdisk has a "help" function of sorts.....

Do this:
fdisk /dev/hda ---you will see a command prompt + a message "m for help"

For example: "d" to delete a partition

Also see "man fdisk"

Note: You don't have a swap partition for Linux--You can make one with fdisk

spjoal · 07-10-2007, 01:42 AM

What is the command that I need to type to get rid of the Win XP partition?? I tried man fdisk..... wasn't rather helpful though. Appreciate you help. Sorry if the question sounds stupid

Nylex · 07-10-2007, 02:50 AM

Did you not bother reading pixellany's post? Run "fdisk /dev/hda", select the partition you want to delete and press "d".

spjoal · 07-10-2007, 06:17 PM

Apologies.... I did read the note. thank you both for your help.