[CentOS] how to reformat a partition to ntfs?

Scott Robbins scottro at nyc.rr.com
Mon Aug 2 10:14:22 UTC 2010


> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:11 AM, hadi motamedi <motamedi24 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear All
> > I want to install win xp on my centos machine . Can you please let me know
> > how can I reformat a partition to ntfs?
> > Thank you


On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 11:14:32AM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> With the Windows XP CD. Do a google search on how to install Windows,
> or contact Microsoft if you don't know.

I believe that's incorrect.  One often first needs to boot into Linux
and use fdisk to remove or reformat (in fat32 or ntfs, if possible). 

At least some Windows CDs simply won't see a Linux partition and will
say there is no available disk.

However, unlike Linux, MS tends to document things very well, at least
from the sysadmin's viewpoint.  (Programmers tell me the opposite is the
case in programming documentation).   Searching the MS knowledge base
using terms like reformat Linux partition should give you a result where
they walk you through it.

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