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abokolor
10-14-2002, 07:17 PM
I know NOTHING about LINUX. Thus I am here! I have two hard drives, an 80 gb and a 100gb. I have WinXP on the first drive (80gb) and somehow I have installed LINUX (Red Hat 7.3) onto the second drive (100 GB). I need to remove LINUX from the second drive, install it to share with XP on the first drive, and then re-partition my second drive for use with Windows. PLEASE-PLEASE-PLEASE tell me how to do this in as simple terms as possible. I can't wait to teach myself LINUX but right now, when I get to this partition step, it's confusing! I choose to have it done automatically but it won't allow me to and forces me to use Druid to set a root partition?? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

michaelk
10-15-2002, 09:00 AM
I will assume that your entire 80g HD is formated and therefore you will need to resize it to make room for linux. If it is formated as NTFS then you will need Parition Magic. If it is FAT32 then you could use fips or parted to resize.

To delete the linux partition from the 100g HD try the XP disk admin tool. The create a FAT32 so that you can share files between linux and XP.

I don't have a step by step procedure.