No, formatting your cd while in wind blows would not render it unusable under gnu/linux. Also, it is standard and perfectly normal for your cds to come unformatted from the factory. Greg On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 04:10:39PM -0500, Glenn Ervinat home wrote: > Hi Gregory, > Would formatting it while in windblows also make it un-usable by Linux? > My CDs all come unformatted. >