fdisk or format

[BadFishBrewer]

i have two IDE hard drive on my computer, one the pri master with Windows 95.
the pri slave is red hat 6.1

now my question is if i was so inclined could i fdisk and or format that hard that contains the linux?

not that i would, but if i wanted to put in a clean install.

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[pcorbett]

Never tried it myself. I know you can have all sorts of problems with M$ NTFS. FDISK doesn't see it at all.
Partition Magic is the best as it recognises Linux partitions.

If all else fails you can probably just delete the partition in Linux install and re-format as fat

[This message has been edited by pcorbett (edited 22 December 2000).]

[mdwatts]

MS fdisk will not see the Linux partition, but you can use the Linux version of fdisk or Partition Magic.

Usually a reinstall of Linux will completely overwrite the previous install. Maybe do an expert install and that may give you partitioning capabilities.

Help a little?

[FoBoT]

if you get stuck deleting linux partitions using msdos fdisk, another option is

ranish partition manager
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/

it will remove linux and ntfs partitions that msdos fdisk can't handle

[manual_overide]

just make a slackware bootdisk, or use a slackware cdrom and use fdisk or format from there.

I use RedHat 7 now, but still:
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/cool.gifSlackware http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/cool.gif