On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Scott Robbins wrote:
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From: Scott Robbins <scottro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: how to reformat a partition to ntfs?
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:56:14PM +0100, Benjamin Donnachie wrote:
On 2 August 2010 11:14, Scott Robbins <scottro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I believe that's incorrect. One often first needs to boot into Linux
> and use fdisk to remove or reformat (in fat32 or ntfs, if possible).
Have you actually installed Windows? The installer will happily
delete any partition, even if it does not recognise it, and recreate
it as NTFS/FAT.
Yuppers, and run into that problem. IIRC, it usually happens with some
older OEM disks. Or, it might be pre SP2, or perhaps pre SP3.
I see that MS does give instructions for using Linux fdisk--whether it's
still an existing issue or not, I don't know.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314458/EN-US
I set my partitions up using the Gparted live CD.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
HTH
Keith Roberts
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