How do you take Linux off of a hard drive?

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Author: KevinO
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Subject: How do you take Linux off of a hard drive?
Michael Havens wrote:
> I have seen MS's fdisk balk at dealing with a disk partition table that has
> any non-MS entries. You may need to remove the non-MS partitions using Linux
> before the MS tools can deal with it. (Knoppix CD would work for this)
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> Now I understand! I had createdthree for it before . The first two were
> windows while the third and the SCSIwere Linux.... so why is the SCSI now
> windows?
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If you are running knoppix you can open a term window and execute the fdisk
command:

# fdisk /dev/hdx

where 'hdx is hda, etc whichever drive is the one you are dealing with.

Once in fdisk you can use 'm' to list out the fdisk commands, 'p' to print out
the partition table, and 'q' to quit without making any changes.

What is the output when you have it print out the partition table?

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KevinO

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