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DOS疑难解答 & 问题讨论（解答室） » [Help] Unable to delete the extended partition due to an FDISK mistake

Floor1　mierigengxin	Posted 2003-04-26 00:00
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While using Fdisk to repartition the hard disk, maybe because the partition deletion order was wrong or for some other unknown reason, it caused the extended partition to become undeletable. But the primary partition can be deleted, logical partitions can be created on the extended partition, and logical partitions can also be deleted, but the extended partition itself just cannot be deleted. DOS cannot recognize the hard disk, and it cannot be FORMATed. Please, any expert familiar with FDISK, help me out. Many thanks!

Floor3　Dark-Destroy	Posted 2003-04-26 00:00
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Can I ask what exactly "extended partition" refers to?? What is it called in Taiwan?? If anyone knows, please tell me. Thanks!!

Floor4　Roy	Posted 2003-04-26 00:00
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Here's the English: Extanded Partition

Floor5　Dark-Destroy	Posted 2003-04-26 00:00
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Oh!! So it's an extended partition!! Roy, thanks!!

Floor6　pfox	Posted 2003-04-28 00:00
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ms's fdisk has to be used in order. When creating partitions, it must be: primary boot partition -> extended partition -> logical partition, and when deleting, you must delete: primary boot partition -> logical partition -> extended partition, so if you haven't deleted the primary boot partition, you won't be able to delete the extended partition. If you use SPFDISK, then you don't have to follow the order.