why won't it format?

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8o7B0t

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I'm running linux suse 10 on my laptop and i got a tip from one of my buddys saying that if I want to run linux and windows xp pro that its better if I put windows on first create a partition then boot linux, but the only problem is I already formatted my hard drive adding linux and now I can't add windows or format linux to start all over again. So how do I format a hard drive using Linux?


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8o7B0t said:
I'm running linux suse 10 on my laptop and i got a tip from one of my buddys saying that if I want to run linux and windows xp pro that its better if I put windows on first create a partition then boot linux, but the only problem is I already formatted my hard drive adding linux and now I can't add windows or format linux to start all over again. So how do I format a hard drive using Linux?


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You can "rezise" your partition and make it smaller, then make a new NTFS partition for windows. I am not sure on the paticular program to use on linux, the one i used on linux came with my OS and I dont remember the name of it.
 
Yes I've tried resizing the partition and after that I'm clueless as to what to do because when I put the windows install disc in hoping that when I change it to boot from CDROM that it will but it doesn't and I haven't found a way on linux to add another operating system.
 
Just put the windows cd in and do an auto install, it will format the whole harddrive and install on to it. Then use the disk managment tool in xp to resize and create a new partition. Then use cfdisk or whatever tool you like in linux to delete the new partition and create two new partions for root and swap (or a third for home, you can have upto four partitions on a drive so you might want to make one FAT32 partition to share between windows and linux. Don't attempt to write onto ntfs from linux) and install.
 
well none of it is actually going to work right now I posted a different topic. One that describes how I F***** it up lol. Thanks for the info though.
 
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