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Someone Help me Please
Name: Help Date: April 12, 2002 at 18:53:50 Pacific
Comment:
I have a compaq 566mhz 128mb, when i bought the system with 9 gig of hd and then I put linux on there and then i got rid of linux..and put XP...and now i only have 7 gig total...where's the rest of it? i even went to fdisk and that didnt work either.so please help me out
Not being rude but try posting in the correct forum.....
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Response Number 2
Name: Black Jack Date: April 13, 2002 at 22:08:15 Pacific
Reply:
Try Linux install CD...
Start Linux installation, and when you get to partition work area, delete all of the linux partition(s) which are(is) Linux-Native(ext2), and save the change...
then use your windows 98/95 booting disk to reboot, and fdisk again...or you may start install XP from CD...
Good Luck!
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Response Number 3
Name: fred6008 Date: April 14, 2002 at 01:27:28 Pacific
Reply:
That's right. The Linux partition is invivible to FDISK. You either use the Linux FDISK or the one in DR-DOS. Or you could download WIPE.exe from the IBM website and erace everything on the drive and start over.
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