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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: g_m10 who wrote (269)	11/6/1999 6:56:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 484

I have an old HD that was used for Linux. Now I'd Like to install Windows back on it and use for backup. There are two partitions on the drive: 20M and 2400M+. I tried to use a floppy with DOS system files , but it got me nowhere. Is there any way to reformat HD for use with Windows? FDISK/MBR while rewrite the Master Boot Record, removing LILO. After that, you can FDISK the driver to delete all partitions, then create (a) new one(s). Then FORMAT them. Another option is, after using FDISK/MBR to remove LILO, to use Partition Magic to create the partition structure you desire. I heartily recommend this program for anyone who does anything out of the ordinary with their disks. It handles FAT, FAT32, NTFS, and Linux formats.

To: g_m10 who wrote (269)	11/17/1999 9:20:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 484

I would boot with a Lilo disk then select the image to boot as mount root=/dev/fd0 Insert a target root floppy. Barring that one could mount the cdrom. Barring that you could mount the MSDOS portion of your disk -t msdos Barring that you could mount the root of your Linux disk and do a fdisk /dev/?d? for your Linux disk. I think that works. Afterwards just shutdown and boot a DOS floppy and FDISK/MBR. You don't have to do the latter if its not a bootable drive/partition. Then using Linux fdisk, remove all the Linux partitions. After that, boot with a DOS diskette and do a fdisk/MBR c: refdisk with DOS fdisk. worked for me once. But I drink heavily and use Slackware. Red Hat at Night, sysadmin's delight, Slackware in the morning, postman's warning. EC<:-}