OK. I was under the impression that microsoft had a feautre that no matter what, would "clean" your entire drive "for your convenience." (in other words, it would make sure no linux was left after they were done with it.)
Hopefully i'll never have to find out... > > Is it "safe" to reinstall 98 and XP? I was always told it would > > reformat your entire drive (wether you wanted it to or not). > > If the command to format has a drive specified, then DOS or any windows > O/S will only format that drive. However, even if format is specified, > only all windows partitions will be formatted and it will be possible to > still boot into Linux through the boot floppy. I have never had any > windows operating system touch the Linux partitions. Or so has been my > experience. It is as if they don't exist. Which can be very handy. > > Windows can be reinstalled and then boot floppy into Linux, run lilo as > root, and everything will be fine. Normal boot options again.
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