I am trying to format a 20 gig seagate HD, i go into fdisk check whats there and it comes up with

1 EXT
2 PRI

I go to delete these but its saying i have to del the logical drives which are in the PRI i select 3 to delete these and it says there are no logical drives defined

Is there another way to delete these

jonno

hmm try re-partitioning with SEAGATE DISK WIZARD: http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html

You sure the logical drives are in the primary partition? They are usually in the extended one.

This problem occurs when your hard drive was partitioned when it was defined as NORMAL mode in the BIOS and you are trying to delete the partition when it is now defined as LBA mode. To fix this problem, simply go to the BIOS and set the hard drive as normal and then delete the partition. You should be able to delete the partition and then reboot. Go back to the BIOS settings and change the hard drive mode back to LBA mode and then partition the hard drive.

That sounds great i'll give it a shot tonight

Thanks for the assistance

jonno


Your probaly right richskie

ok u have banned him/her for 7 day's but he/she has asked me to say this in his defence

he sold a phone to sharkster and to save any bad vibes either way he/she decided the best thing to do as already tried e-mailing was to put a post in the gsm forum as their is no desputes folder as their is in other folders for him to put the post in so u tell me/him/her what they r supposed to do

so fredddie is the way to fix my fdisk problem :confused:

This isn't the place nor the way to solve disputes. Hopefully, jonno112, someone else will come along with an answer. I HATE when someone uses someone else's thread to further their own agenda.

jonno u fix the problem.

Yes the problem is fixed the drive was defined as LBA i changed it to normal and everything was deleted

Thanks Hothi

This advice has been documented

Your now famous dude

jonno