Hello, I was given a hard drive from a friend who I had done some work for. Well, he is on vacation for a couple weeks so I cannot ask him. The hard drive he gave me has Linux installed on it. Is there anyway to uninstall it or install a Windows OS over it? I have a PC I am building that is only waiting for a HD and I need that one. Thanks in advance.

needed windows startup disk windows insert windows startup disk boot when you get to the a prompt type fdisk select delete existant partitions delete all of theme now select the number on option create primary partition go through the process of creating a partition when its done reboot the computer when you get to the a prompt type fdisk /mbr now type format c: answere yes when its done formatting reboot if your startup disk has cdrom support boot with cdrom support ( i suggest windows 98 startup disk for this reason or a newer version (me)) change to the drive your cdrom is on well pretend its your d drive at the a prompt type d:\ and hit enter if you have windows 98 or me simply type setup now and your good to go if a newer different version go to the appropriate forum when your ready and ask there for a walk through if your uncertain

Grrr, well I tried that hoping it would work but it will not boot from the A drive. Okay step by step this is what I am doing. I am putting the bootup disk, I have a Windows ME disk. The computer starts and goes through the memory check and everything. Then it comes to the boot process, the light on my floppy drive comes on and it just goes right ahead and starts loading Linux. It goes all the way to the localhost login screen. I do have a second hard drive installed and it is my primary slave. It is a very small drive but I installed it the other day hoping I could use it with the drive Linux was installed on. Not sure if that makes a difference or not.

To uninstall linux you will need 3 things. 1. baseball bat 2. concrete 3. agrresion step 1 take your computer place on the concrete. step 2 grip bat firmly step 3 start beating till your computer is in at least 5 millon pieces step 4 repeat step 3 as needed step 5 fell the release of stress and drink a beer step 6 repeat step 5 as needed