On 2 August 2010 11:14, Scott Robbins <scottro at 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. Ben