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Michael P Gabriel

Hi, I can't seem to be able to get rid of Suse Linux from a two
partition 80 Gig Drive. I formatted the entire drive using the Western
Digital Utility disk, and now it shows one partition for 80 Gigs. But
when I tried loading WIN XP Home Edition, it won't recognize that
partition and shows only 32 +/- Gigs. I don't want to load WIN XP
until I can use the entire 80gig drive.

Is FDISK the only utility that would guaranty a clean format?
Partition Magic won't, neither will V-com fix-it utilities.

Help! I'm desparate! And many thanks!, Mike
 
Your problem is you are trying to format the drive using FAT32. XP limites
the formatting of FAT32 to 32 GB (+/-).

Try using NTFS.
 
Michael said:
Hi, I can't seem to be able to get rid of Suse Linux from a two
partition 80 Gig Drive. I formatted the entire drive using the Western
Digital Utility disk, and now it shows one partition for 80 Gigs. But
when I tried loading WIN XP Home Edition, it won't recognize that
partition and shows only 32 +/- Gigs. I don't want to load WIN XP
until I can use the entire 80gig drive.

Is FDISK the only utility that would guaranty a clean format?
Partition Magic won't, neither will V-com fix-it utilities.
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You do it as part of the install of the system after booting the XP CD
direct. Enter Setup, and after the license agreement take New Install.
When it asks you to confirm where, hit ESC; select and delete the
current partition(s) and make a new RAW one to be formatted at the next
stage

The important point is the delete. Without that it will just go ahead
and make a new install over the top of the old one

The reason you are in trouble is that it is a FAT 32 partition and XP
will not format one bigger than 32 GB
 
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