On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:56:14PM +0100, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > 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. 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 -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Jenny: You're here again? You kids really dig the library don't you? Buffy: We're literary. Xander: To read makes our speaking English good.