I have loaded Linux Mandrake 10.1 on a HP OmniBook 900. I have never used Linux before and want to learn it. I am having some problems with the old OmniBook, and I have taken the hardrive out and installed it in another. I want to fdisk the drive and reformat it. I believe Linux has partitioned the drive into 2 partitions the primary dos partition c: and an extended partition not labled. I cannot remove the extended partition because you cannot remove the extended partition with a logical drive assigned . When I try to remove the logical drive I get a response that there are no logical drives yet there is an extended partition and it thinks that there is a drive associated with it. It there a way around this? Is this something that Linux does or is this some other problem?

newestuser

I assume that your using the DOS/windows fdisk utility and not linux's fdisk. You need to select delete non DOS logical drive. It has been a number of years since I've needed to use windows FDISK so not sure where in the menu system it lies.

FYI linux does not use the same drive ID scheme as windows. There are no seperate drives i.e. c:, d: etc. Everything falls under / (root).