cant delete partition

[silvergrin]

heyas, um im using partition magic 8.0 in winxp pro, was going to run duel boot with xp and mandrake, but decided against it after allready creating linux partitions, i want to get rid of mandrake and expand my windows partition. partition magic sees the two linux partitions and swap, and i delete and secure erase it, when when applying changes, the partitions just come straight back :/ any ideas? am i doing something wrong? (im new to partitioning)

[silvergrin]

[silvergrin]

ok now im wishing i could delete this thread, sorry for the waste of space, lol, i guess im tired i never even though about using the linux cd to kill the partitions, its all good now, *embarrassed*

[silvergrin]

and after reading other threads here about partioning it seems that partition magic is a hell spawn of a program, so i downloaded paragon partition manager, and it works great!

[not important]

Glad to hear you got your problem solved.

[mike breck]

Hmm...that raises an interesting question. If FDISK can also delete Linux partitions, then can XP Disk Management delete Linux partitions and enable you to create a new NTFS partition with the unallocated space?

Has anyone used XP Disk Management to delete Linux partitions and create new NTFS partitions?

[glc]

The easiest way to delete any kind of partition is Delpart. It will fit on a Win9x or Dos bootdisk and it's free.

http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart.htm

[mike breck]

Yes glc,

Also, Setfree over at the Alternative OS forum, told me he had used XP Disk Management to delete Linux partitions and create NTFS partitions.

So I guess that answers my question.