I have a 20gigs HDD, with 5MB devoted to linux. Now I want to remove the partition without affecting my existing windows partition which has some valuable files. I do not want to completely reformat ...

If you need to delete the Master Boot Record partition from a hard drive, a number of free tools are available to help you through the process, some built into the Windows operating system. Before ...

I was trying to delete the active partition with fdisk.<BR>Wouldn't you know it, the system had given it a name with lower caps.<BR>fdisk wouldn't let me type lower case letters for the volume name so ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

Linux systems provide many ways to look at disk partitions. Here's a look at commands you can use to display useful information -- each providing a different format and with a different focus. Linux ...