2 Aug
2010
2 Aug
'10
12:47 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:56:14PM +0100, Benjamin Donnachie wrote:
On 2 August 2010 11:14, Scott Robbins scottro@nyc.rr.com wrote:
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).
Have you actually installed Windows? The installer will happily delete any partition, even if it does not recognise it, and recreate it as NTFS/FAT.
Yuppers, and run into that problem. IIRC, it usually happens with some older OEM disks. Or, it might be pre SP2, or perhaps pre SP3.
I see that MS does give instructions for using Linux fdisk--whether it's still an existing issue or not, I don't know.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314458/EN-US
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