[aclug-L] Re: Help with Windows paritition.

[gLaNDix <kaufmjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

to make a drive boot-able, use fdisk or cfdisk...  there, you can delete /
modify / add partitions... just make your windoze partition bootable (by
selecting "bootable" in cfdisk or the equiv)...  to format a DOS
partition... just use mkdosfs (while logged in as root)...

maybe this helps more?
jesse

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On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Bob Bonifield wrote:

> My problem isn't so much in LILO.  I need to know how to reformat a drive so
> it is bootable.  I have reason to believe that it somehow got corrupt and I
> need to know how to just erase that drive and start over with reinstalling
> windows on it.  LILO isn't the main issue.  Thx
> 
> -----
> Bob Bonifield
> augur@xxxxxxxxxxx
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Holmes" <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 5:07 PM
> Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Help with Windows paritition.
> 
> 
> > If you are running red hat, go to the system configeration under left
> > click(x window menu) ,--> system, --> configeration.  scroll down to LILO,
> > then click the + sign.  Then chose " Linux and other OS."  There, if you
> > remember which drive you were using hdb or hdc or hdd, and which number
> you
> > were using(hdb1 or hdc2 or what ever you used as the windows boot sector.
> > If you advertenly removed it, it might still show up on the selections.  I
> > do not know how to access LILO under debian, as I am still trying to learn
> > debian.  But, Red Hat is fairly simple. It is made for dummies like me!!
> :-)
> >
> > augur wrote:
> >
> > > Hey all.  I was wondering if I could get a few pointers on how to
> > > reconfigure a windows partition.  I am in linux here as a the primary
> > > boot device.  I also have another HD in here that has windows on it.
> > > I have been duel booting for a long time with this combination and about
> > > two monthes ago it all of a sudden stopped wanting to boot from the
> > > windows drive.  I was wondering if someone could give me a quick run
> > > through of how to resetup this boot sequence along with how to format
> > > the drive in linux so that I can boot onto it and reinstall windows.
> > > There is really nothing important on that drive that I want to keep.
> > > Any and all help would be appreciated.  Thanks a ton all.
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Bob Bonifield
> > > augur@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > "The term 'nothing' is endless, the term 'everything' is just a void."
> >
> >
> 
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