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hjkorea
Joined: 29 Dec 2003
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 Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:02 pm Post subject: uninstalling linux |
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hey,
i have a server that has linux installed. i want to get rid of linux and install xp. can i just use fdisk to delete the linux partition and then reformat the drive? are there any special commands? i don't mind wiping the whole disk and starting fresh.
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Hank Scorpio
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:35 pm Post subject: Re: uninstalling linux |
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| You've already answered your own question. As long as you can get around in fdisk you'll be fine. Wipe all your linux partitions, reformat and reinstall. Easy as pie. |
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hjkorea
Joined: 29 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:43 pm Post subject: thanks! |
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| thanks for your help. |
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turtlepi1
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 6:29 pm Post subject: Re: uninstalling linux |
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| Hank Scorpio wrote: |
| You've already answered your own question. As long as you can get around in fdisk you'll be fine. Wipe all your linux partitions, reformat and reinstall. Easy as pie. |
Is that true in all cases?
I thought depending on volume types and structure that fdisk didn't work in all cases...I seem to remember having to use gdisk a lot of the time when I was teaching linux/unix courses....
(a past lifetime ago)  |
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Hank Scorpio
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 5:37 am Post subject: Re: uninstalling linux |
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| turtlepi1 wrote: |
Is that true in all cases? |
Sort of. ReiserFS can be a pain in that you can't remove that partition with FDisk. If you run into that situation the easiest way to fix it is to boot your computer with the Linux install disks and remove the partitions from there. A lot of Linux distros will even let you create NTFS partitions.
It's kind of a roundabout way of doing it, but it works. |
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