cant delete pri & ext dos partitions

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I been going through all my old laptop hard drives to see which are good or bad etc, they are only small hdd's and not really much use but nice to know if they are working or not.

Anyway ive come accross about 3 that had 2 partitions PRI & EXT, 2 of them i just deleted the ext then the pri and re fdisk to create just one and all worked fine, but one of them wont let me, if i try to delete the ext i get a msg "cannot delete ext dos partition while logical drive exists" but no logical drives exist, and cant delete pri partion because ext partition exisits. so im in a catch 22 here, its probably something stupid that im doing wrong as i did the other 2 a while back and probably missing something out.

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Solved, used software called DiscWizard Suite which deleted both partitions, now working fine

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