[CentOS] how to reformat a partition to ntfs?

On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Scott Robbins wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] how to reformat a partition to ntfs?
> 
> 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

I set my partitions up using the Gparted live CD.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

HTH

Keith Roberts