Chris Lee Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 I have installed Mandrake, however, it has somethings I don't like, I want to uninstall Mandrake, and reformat the drive from a linux filesystem. It won't let me. I have 2 drives, one has C and F as a harddrive, and the other has 6 gigs of space (old maxtor drive). I tried using Fdisk on Win98 boot disk to delete the old hd partition, says it worked, but it didn't. I booted up to XP (C:\ and F:\ drives) and it wouldn't let me use partition magic to format the old hd back to NTFS, not even when it tried to do it while booting up. Does anyone have any ideas how I can remove this partition on this seperate HD? the mandrake bootloader is very annoying. TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 use knoppix. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr33k Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 try useing diskmgmt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aviator747 Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 Have you tried XP's partition manager yet? Right click on My Computer, Select Manage. Now under the Storage section on the window that pops up select Disk Managment. Right click on the partition that you want to manipulate & select what you want to do with it on the menu. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lee Posted March 31, 2004 Author Share Posted March 31, 2004 this was the page I found in google, I basically put in XPCD, typed R, then Fixmbr, before that, I logged into Mandrake and deleted that partition..(I just don't get why they could delete partition while it's in use). But everything works now, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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