[techtalk] Parition help

Conor Daly conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Fri Jan 12 18:59:37 EST 2001


On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:36:08PM -0800 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Eric Richard Turner thought:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Kath wrote:
> 
> > Ok, my friend installed Red Hat 6.2 and has decided she hates linux.  
> > Oh well.  Lets not lecture her on Linux vs. Windows.
> > 
> > What is the easiest way for her to delete her linux partition and
> > create a FAT32 one so she can reinstall Windows?  cfdisk?  fdisk?
> > 
> > - Kath
> > 
> 
> If she installed LILO and installed it in the master boot record, she will
> need to run the MS DOS/Windows version of fdisk to recover that by issuing
> the command:
> 
>    fdisk /MBR
> 
> Eric
The Windows setup will kill that nicely, no worries there!

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