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To: Tunehead54
You've been added. Welcome!

With Ubuntu loaded is there an Fdisk (Windows) equivalent so I can delete ANY partition on an IDE/ATA? Hard Drive (Not SATA).

I'm not sure I understand you question. Are you looking for a Windows program that will perform the equivalent of fdisk? or are you looking for a GUI fdisk frontend for Ubuntu?

18 posted on 02/21/2019 8:02:36 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce
"Are you looking for a Windows program that will perform the equivalent of fdisk? or are you looking for a GUI fdisk frontend for Ubuntu? "
Either-Or?

My bench/test PC had Win 10 for testing but I did not like the forced upgrades.

I skipped the "free" upgrade and it just plugged along with occasional notices to upgrade but then the boot drive failed.

Having a box of some 25 drives I just wanted one to boot with Win98SE, just for fun, Win ME or Win 7.

A 250GB drive looked good but the install with Win 98SE removed the partition but then could not proceed.

Win 7 or ME are baffled as well.

I thought Ubuntu might have an Fdisk equivalent to remove a partition and leave a completely clean drive as WIN 98 doesn't understand larger drives and partitioning the drive failed.

I'd probably just go with Win 7 and then set up a multiple boot system options so I could learn Linux.

Short story: I can boot off an Ubuntu USB thumb drive but want a command line (or GUI) method to remove any partition on the SATA drive.

Thanks for putting me on your list.

Charlie

19 posted on 02/22/2019 2:38:57 PM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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