after installing windows 98 i realized that by accident I left a partition that takes up 177 mb on the hard drive. FDISK says it's an extended DOS partition but i'm pretty sure that it's a swap partition that I made when I installed Red Hat 7. FDISK won't DELETE it because it says something about some logical DOS drive and when I tell it to delete it it says no logical DOS drives identified. I can't delete it but I want the 177 mb because the hard drive is only 1.5 Gb.SOLUTION: get a bigger hard drive (then 177meg is very very very very small)

Edit: You said that it says extended hd, so you should have another drive letter, drive D or something. If you dont want it then try fdisk and delete all partitions and start over. Or get winxp, so much easier.are you on government control PILLS?

The hard drive is 1.5 Gb, not 177 Mb. and I tried to delete the *CENSORED* partition in fdisk but it wouldn't. next time, try to read the whole post, not half. XP wont work on this thing, it has 200 mhz pentium 1 and 16 RAM. starting over is what i did in the first place but it wouldn't delete it!!!!!Use a Linux disk and use the cfdisk utility. Like FDISK ons teroids.How do you get to a command prompt from a linux CD?lol nowhere did i say you had 177 meg big hard drive. What i meant was on a big hard drive 177 meg will be next to nothing.ive seen 2 year olds MAKE more COMPLEX sentences that made more sense than yours.Download Vector Linux and you can quickly access CFDISK before the install routine.

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