how to format linux drive?

Sebouh

Sebouh

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Hey guys, i had installed lindows on a partition. This partition was not visible from windows and on partition magic it was a linux drive. I deleted this partition and recreated it from partition magic from windows. I restarted the pc and i found that lindows is still accessible and this drive became visible from windows. so now i want to remove lindows and install mandriva.
I have another problem that i can't install the mandriva since when i put the cd i can't boot with it, though it is a bootable cd and i am sure my bios settings are correct.
thanks.
 
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charly

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windows does'nt have access to linux drives ! just linus is able to read fat or ntfs.
in windows a linux partition is "unknowen format". if you want to remove the linux partition, you have to use fdisk and re-format with windows to get a fat or ntfs partition.
for linux you need a seperate partition.
why don't you use suse, mandrake or red hat ?

ciao
 
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