or use gnu parted partiontion magic or some other clueful partition
manager to grow your fat32 partition. not sure if parted does this but i
believe that partition magic can. Parted can split ext2 partitions
however.
Cheerio
robin
"Binand Raj S." wrote:
>
>
> Well, you have successfully deleted your root partition, I guess.
>
> 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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