Linux, XP feformatting problems, help please.

[Mike Yanni]

A while ago I bought a 2nd Hard Drive, and installed Red Hat Linux on
it. Now I want to canabalize it and use it for sorely needed space in XP
Hard Drive. And...I can't find the way to reformat it from inside Red
Hat, then i tried doing it from XP. XP can see the HD but it doesn't
have a drive letter assigned to it for some reason, so I can't use
"format d:".

Anyone have any sudgestions?

for the record the jumpers are set to master(XP) and slave(Linux), and
the master is on the end of the IDE chain.

 

[Dave]

Right-click My Computer and select "Manage"
Then go to Disk Management. Do you see the drive in here? If yes you can
format from here.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Boot it from a startup floppy made in Linux, remove the ext and swap
partitions. Restart into WinXP, start/run diskmgm.msc and use this tool to
create new partitions in the resulting free space.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone