On Thursday 17 March 2005 11:41, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 10:12, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > > Kaj, if you have a windows boot disk, use fdisk to completely
> > > remove the partition, then let MCC deal with it. I've never
> > > used the linux fdisk, but I would have thought you could do
> > > the same with that.
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > Thanks, Anne. But..eh.. I don't have Windows disk, and even if
> > I had, how could I get in into the external drive ?
>
> Ah - I missed that it was an external drive - sorry about that.
> I've never used an external drive, but I would think that you
> could only do that if the bios recognised the external drive - I
> understand that some do.
>
> > The linux fdisk utility won't let me do anything on the drive.
>
> Is the drive seen at all? I would have thought that if the drive
> is recognised it should be possible to remove the partition as
> long as it's unmounted?
>
> Anne
The drive is seen OK, but trying to format it with a real file
system is a no go. I'm wondering if someone wrote a defragger for
linux to use on a FAT32 partition ? - It's my impression that
many here have such a partition for their Windows stuff. I'll
google around some. No major problem though, just my
perfectionism....
Kaj Haulrich.
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