[plug] [OT] Getting rid of ext3 partitions from Windows

[Daniel]

Hi Mark, what about the disk they have at:
http://crashrecovery.org/
or DemoLinux 3.0 bootable o/s that runs from cd .... (you've probably 
already got the solution from someone wiser, but I thought I'd try)
Cheers,
Daniel.

At 16:30 9/04/2002, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>An embarassing question...
>
>I used to dual boot on my laptop with RH7.2 and Win98, but mostly using
>Win98 for work.
>
>The Win98 got trashed in a bizaar VB related incident and i had to reinstall
>Win98 asap so i ended up doing a fdisk /mbr and made it single boot and got
>on with the job.
>
>Now i have the linux ext3 partitions sitting in my extended partition and i
>can't recover the space via Win98's fdisk, or via Partition Magic (V4).
>
>Any ideas on tools / methods available to kill a ext3 partition from Win98?
>Is there a GPL'd (or other free tool) for manipulating partitions under
>windows... as i'll eventually be putting Linux and KDE 3 back on this baby.
>
>
>mn
>
>PS: Now thinking about it more i suppose i could boot of the RH cd, and use
>fdisk from there...


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