Use the dos utility Delpart available at http://www.ntfaq.com/ntfaq/download/delpart.exe this will remove the offending partition which you can then use for DOS. Fdisk will be able to recognise the reclaimed space and you can use as is your want. Remember FAT16 will only use 2Gb of the drive space. Personally I feel that a proper Linux file system would make for a far better system but I do know you had all sorts of problems installing at Aylesham. Cheers, BJ

-----Original Message----- From: alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk [mailto:alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Terry Filby Sent: 22 June 2000 17:45 To: alug-digest@stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: [Alug] How do I get rid of empty 15Mb Partition please?

Am getting on very well with Mandrake Lnx4Win - Linux on windows partition - but, on one of my previous abortive attempts to put Linux on a separate partition, I couldn't delete everything, and, despite going into Fdisk on Windows and in Linux I still have a 15Mb empty Partition. I have a 4.3 Gb HD with two Fat 16 partitions - 2047 on C:, 2063 on D: The empty partition is on D:, I have System Commander 2000 with graphic representation of the HD, and you can see the errant partition, but, if I try to amalgamate it in D:, it's got to be a Fat 32 drive, which I don't want. Any suggestions please? If I haven't made it clear enough, please e-mail with any queries. Everything works ok as is, but I don't like having 15Mb doing nothing that I can't delete!

Terry