I wasn't entirely certain what to do, but I did know what Win98 would do.
When I later went to install Win7 it came across the remaining Linux partition
and balked, and then I saw the FORMAT option. Never having installed Win7
before, I did not know this was there. I pressed the FORMAT option, it cleared
out the partition, and continued. Piece of cake.
I didn't install any further software, not even the Dell drivers. I'll
take care of all that later. For now, I'm satisfied that I've recovered that
80G HD and will eventually have a spare Win7 machine. LM14.1 is on a 30G HD,
and I'm not overly anxious to retread that one for now as it's really not large
enough to use as an WinXP or Win7 HD, but maybe as an external HD for data.
>
>> I felt so good after accomplishing this that I'm wiping the LM
>> 17.2 HD in preparation for a second install of Win7. Interesting aspect
>> of Linux is that it has some sort of self-preservation mode wherein you
>> cannot read the HDs using Windows so you can format them. But there's a
>> simple fix to that. I put the LM17.2 HD back into the laptop and got
>> out a Win98 install CD. Win98 will format the HD prior to installing,
>> and it's doing that right now. Once it's done I'll just abort the
>> installation and later install Win7.
>
>That's an interesting conclusion... :) The LM disk format is EXT4, a
>different logical layout to FAT/NTFS, and is simply not recognisable to
>window's very 'limited vocabulary'.
>
>If you boot from the W7 CD, The 'install now' option should format the
>drive for you. Select 'use entire disk' at disk partition time (or
>split it up into primary and extended partitions etc.), that should
>infect the disk with the NTFS virus quite effectively without first
>wasting time formatting as FAT. :)
>
>davidt
>
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