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Deleting partitions

brian_rbk · 2007-06-25 20:13:22

I currently have linux and windows installed on seperate partitions and i want to reformat the hd and delete the current partitions... any ideas on how i go about this? brian

25-06-2007 8:13pm

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brian_rbk

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I currently have linux and windows installed on seperate partitions and i want to reformat the hd and delete the current partitions... any ideas on how i go about this?

brian

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#2 25-06-2007 8:55pm

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Would reformatting not remove the partitions....?

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#3 25-06-2007 8:55pm

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There are a couple of things you can do- are you planning to format and install an OS of some description or do you just want a blank drive?

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#4 25-06-2007 8:58pm

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If you are installing Windows XP, you can delete the partitions during setup and format the drive to NTFS.

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#5 26-06-2007 1:57am

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Blank drive with no partitions is what im looking for

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#6 26-06-2007 10:58am

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brian_rbk wrote:

Blank drive with no partitions is what im looking for

Windows can do that no problem! When you get to the partitioning screen, just select to delete every partition listed, having backed up your data first.

Don't continue the installation at this point -- just quit it.

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#7 26-06-2007 11:11am

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cheers, thanks for that

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