I have always had to use something like "Disk Manager from whoever made the hard drive to remove the Linux partitions. Fdisk sees them as virtual partitions and will not remove them. ----- Original Message ----- From: "KevinO" To: Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 7:02 PM Subject: Re: help with new OS Jim wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yep - a MS os wont care what is on the hd - it will just take it all and load > itself onto it. Not necessarily. The MS version of fdisk has always choked for me when it tried to partition a disk with a filesystem it didn't recognize. -- Kevin O'Connor "People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun ... The GNU Manifesto - Copyright (C) 1985, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss