Come on—30 GB HD??? I do not even have USB sticks this small!
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> On 13 Mar 2017, at 02:39, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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