Hi, Saw a lot of discussions on this subject. I consider myself a veteran, having removed and reinstalled Linux at least 15 times on my machine. I must have converted the Lin. Partitions to FAT32 at least 6 times. In fact, as far as I know nothing helps. Not fdisk, not diskdruid(if you go for a custom install etc.). Fdisk will not delete the non-dos partition. It will give the option but will not recognize the fs. If you go for a diskdruid option through custom install. You will have to create new partitions for linux elsewhere after deleting the original ones and abort the install after partitions are formatted. Hoever there is a demo utility called partition manager available for download at http://www2.paragon.ru/download/pmedemo.zip This does a wonderful job of manipulating your partitions from Windows . Try it. Regards Sujit ----------------------------------------------------------------------- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
