Re: Having problem doing a fresh install of xp

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From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:04:37 -0400

Hi,

To delete the Linux partitions you will need to use the Linux pdisk utility.
Boot with the Linux disk or floppy and use it to remove the unwanted ext2/3
and swap partitions. 

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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"murphy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:139e01c4a1ee$a73ce210$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Currently my pc is having a dualboot between xp and
> linux. When I try doing a fresh install of xp, during the
> setup I was given 3 option
>
> 1) Setup windows xp on selected item, press enter.
> 2)Create partition in the unpartition space, press C.
> 3)Delete selected partition, press D.
>
> And also the following:
>
> C: partition 1 NTFS 17469mb
> E: partition 2 unknown 102mb
> partition 3 unknown 11304mb
> partition 4 unknown 447mb
>
> And when I choose D to delete selected partition, I was
> only given the option to delete partition 1 which is xp,
> it seems as though I was not given the option to delete
> linux as well, so how am I going to do a fresh install,
> making sure everything is remove?
>
>

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