On 14 Feb, Dave hardy wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Here's my piddly little situation:
>
> I installed a second hard drive on my home machine last summer and
> have had RH6.2 on it since; however, due to work-at-home issues at our
> house recently, I need to uninstall RH and recover the drive for
> WinDoze apps, and then try out RH7 and some other Linux distros on
> another machine that I just built from cannabalized parts.
>
> I managed to blow away LILO but am having trouble reformatting the
> drive; I tried it from the DOS shell and also using Partition Magic,
> which clearly displays the half dozen or so partitions I have with RH
> but will only allow me to format the Win32 partition of 40MB and I
> can't recover the other 15GB of space that I need from the other
> partitions; in fact, the "format" option is grayed out on the
> drop-down menu.
>
> I must be missing something really basic and stupid here; does
> anyone have a quick and easy way for me to reformat the drive and
> put it into WinDoze Purgatory?
>
> Thanks for your consideration, and I must say I have yet to run
> across a real bastard yet among the whole bunch of you; those I have
> in abundance here at work. Looking forward to the next NNH LUG
> meeting and also the geekfest down in Hopkinton, nicely described by
> maddog.
>
>
> Dave
I think this is due to Windows refusing to touch a non-Windows
partition. At the very least, Windows won't recognize them because
they are all Linux partitions, rather than Windows partitions.
Furthermore, Windows fdisk may refuse to touch those partitions, even
to delete them, and if it does, you'll have to boot from a Linux
rescue disk and delete all the Linux partitions, then boot back into
Windows and recreate them with Windows fdisk.
HTH,
--
Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux
Technology Coordinator
Center for Educational Outcomes,
C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth College
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