Need to format hard drive on a Linux laptop - Help!
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I guess I'll need a boot disk?
I have another laptop with Win2K, but can't create boot disk.
I basically want to change the Linux laptop into an XP one, but can't seem to get the installation from CD rom to work, so I guess I need to format the hard disk first?
I have another laptop with Win2K, but can't create boot disk.
I basically want to change the Linux laptop into an XP one, but can't seem to get the installation from CD rom to work, so I guess I need to format the hard disk first?
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shouldn't be...
sounds more like your xp cd is dodgy...
otherway to do it is to make a bootable floppy disk with cdrom drivers, fdisk.exe and format.com .
(you can get floppy disk images from http://www.bootdisk.com/)
boot off the floppy, run fdisk, delete all non-dos partitions, create a dos partition and then format it (make it bootable). you might also have to run fdisk /mbr (to remove lilo). then goto the xp cdrom and run setup .
[Edited by snowcrash - 1/7/2003 5:44:55 PM]
[Edited by snowcrash - 1/7/2003 6:23:17 PM]
sounds more like your xp cd is dodgy...
otherway to do it is to make a bootable floppy disk with cdrom drivers, fdisk.exe and format.com .
(you can get floppy disk images from http://www.bootdisk.com/)
boot off the floppy, run fdisk, delete all non-dos partitions, create a dos partition and then format it (make it bootable). you might also have to run fdisk /mbr (to remove lilo). then goto the xp cdrom and run setup .
[Edited by snowcrash - 1/7/2003 5:44:55 PM]
[Edited by snowcrash - 1/7/2003 6:23:17 PM]
#5
Snowcrash,
This CD-ROM has worked in other laptops (same spec), but using different OS's. Its just not happy with Linux.
I couldn't find a bootdisk image from that website!
Thanks for your help anyway...
This CD-ROM has worked in other laptops (same spec), but using different OS's. Its just not happy with Linux.
I couldn't find a bootdisk image from that website!
Thanks for your help anyway...
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