On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 15:38, Vincent Voois wrote: > Eric Scott wrote: > > Anybody know of a program that will let me format a given partition as > > NTFS? Fat32 might do it, I don't know. I'm trying to deal with a faulty > > Windows installation, and as I'm sure you know, Windows' > > installer/rescue is the worst on earth. No joke. Anyway, it wants me to > > have a "Windows 2000 compatable partition" on hda for (I assume) it's > > bootloader process, even though I'm installing on hdb. Windows > > installer tells me to make a Win2k compatable partition on hda, but > > doesn't provide me with the resources to do so. (The diskdrake thingy in > > MDK control center doesn't create a valid FAT partition, which is why I > > need another) > > FAT16 and FAT32 are also Windows 2000 compatible partitions :P > Try fdisk. >
Huh? Fdisk doesn't do format. The only thing he can do with fdisk is set the partition type to 7 which is NTFS. That's not the same thing as formatting. LX
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