Re: [techtalk] Parition help

2001-01-12 Thread spud
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Lisa Mendonsa wrote: > But at this point it told me that it could not delete the DOS extended > partition when logical partitions exist. So I tried deleting the "logical > partitions" ,but lo and behold , it tells me there are no logical > partitions defined. This has soemth

Re: [techtalk] Parition help

2001-01-12 Thread Conor Daly
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 eas

Re: [techtalk] Parition help

2001-01-12 Thread Jen Hamilton
> Partition Magic is available on Chip CD June 2000 issue, but should > also be freely available on the net. I don't think Partition Magic is free. The home page has a 'demo' which shows you what it would do without actually doing it. Has anyone found a (legal) download of PM? Jen On Fri, 12

Re: [techtalk] Parition help

2001-01-12 Thread Tricia Bowen
fdisk works well. -tricia 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 reinstal

Re: [techtalk] Parition help

2001-01-11 Thread Lisa Mendonsa
Well, I more or less had a small problem when I tried deleting my partitions of Linux RH7, and DOS pirmary and extended . I deleted them using Linux fdisk (using the installation CD) and then run the windows fdisk to delete the DOS partitions. But at this point it told me that it could not delete

Re: [techtalk] Parition help

2001-01-11 Thread Eric Richard Turner
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? fdis

Re: [techtalk] Parition help

2001-01-11 Thread FeO
either cfdisk or fdisk will work just fine. she can even use the linux version to delete the existing partitions and create one big FAT32 partition, no need to revert to windows fdisk for that. At 11:26 PM 1/11/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Ok, my friend installed Red Hat 6.2 and has decided she hat

Re: [techtalk] Parition help

2001-01-11 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:26:09PM -0500, 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 Wi

[techtalk] Parition help

2001-01-11 Thread Kath
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