Suraj Kumar forced the electrons to say:
> I deleted the partition using fdisk /dev/hdb5 and and rebooted and you know
> what the problem still persistes and now I am totally unable to boot into
> Linux because as soon as I boot it it stops saying,
> kernel Panic : VFS : unable to mount root on 03:45
Well, you have successfully deleted your root partition, I guess.
The standard procedure when you want to reclaim partitions used by linux for
windows is:
1. Boot into linux, run fdisk on the disk.
2. Delete all linux specific partions.
3. Create one large partition that is the total of all linux partitions.
4. Set its partition type as Windows FAT32.
5. Boot into windows and format this partition (most likely D:)
6. Run fdisk /mbr in windows (to remove lilo).
Now that you have junked your root partition, you will have to boot
into linux either via the boot/root floppies (you did create them,
didn't you?) or the CD and reedit the partition table.
If you want the entire disk to be one big C: instead of separate C and
D colons, then before doing the above, create a Windows boot disk (I
think settings/control panel/add-remove programs has the tab to create
a bootable floppy) and delete all partitions, including the Windows one,
and then create one large partition (of size the total size of the disk)
that is of type Windows FAT32. Do this from Linux. Now boot using the
Windows boot floppy, format the disk, and reinstall Windows.
Maybe it will work without formatting and reinstalling, by just running
scandisk and defrag. Or maybe format is not necessary.
Who knows?
Binand
PS: Of course, the standard disclaimers apply.
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