Uninstall/Reformat HD

[Tia Haenni]

OK, I need serious and quick help, please!! I reformatted the HD for
NTFS, but as I feared, there is a problem when I boot up. I only get as
far as the command line grub, which I am not familiar with. There's a
6-pack for anyone who can help me to get my windoze booted up tonight.
This box has work stuff on it and I HAVE to get it up ASAP. Thanks,

Tia

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Kessler [mailto:kessler2k at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 5:28 PM
To: thaenni at kc.rr.com
Subject: RE: Uninstall/Reformat HD

It doesnt "recognize" it, it just knows that it's a
NON-DOS partition. You just kill the partitions, and
when you boot next Windoze just sees a bunch of
garbage and will automatically kill everything, just
like normal. lol

--- Tia Haenni <thaenni at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> Ok, but how do you fdisk a drive that is formatted
> for linux, windows
> doesn't recognize it???????
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net 
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Kurt Kessler
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 3:34 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: RE: Uninstall/Reformat HD
> 
> 
> Ok, i see what you are saying. I just did the same
> thing. I added a second drive to my 2k box, to only
> put games on. I just fdisk out of habit. Anyway,
> once
> I booted up with the second drive after having
> fdisk'd
> it, Win2k will automatically tell you that it needs
> to
> be formatted, and ask you whether fat32 or NTFS.
> 
> --- Tia Haenni <thaenni at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> > I don't need to install an OS, the HD will just be
> > used for data. So
> > then, if I fdisk the HD for NTFS, that should be
> it?
> > If I already have a
> > Windoze OS installed and am not installing a new
> OS
> > on said HD, I don't
> > want to fdisk /mbr, do I?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> > [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On
> Behalf Of Dustin Decker
> > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:41 AM
> > To: kclug at kclug.org
> > Subject: Re: Uninstall/Reformat HD
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Kurt Kessler wrote:
> > 
> > > I always use my handy Win98 Startup disk. I just
> > boot
> > > to the floppy and fdisk the patitions. Also, be
> > sure
> > > and "fdisk /mbr" too. Then Just boot the new OS
> > cd.
> > > Windows is real good about destroying any info
> on
> > a
> > > hard drive :p
> > 
> > If you boot off of the CD to do the Win2K install,
> > you needn't go
> > through all the "fdisk /mbr" stuff...
> > D.
> > 
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