Are you looking to create a 4 Gig. partition on a 20 MB. drive?
Roman
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Taylor
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 3:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
Thanks,
All went well except my 4 gig hard drive is now at 20 mb.
Any ideas on what I did wrong, and how to correct.
I want to use the drive on my sons machine, he has a bad disc and he needs
to load windows. I need windows on this machine for work.
BrianT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Mandrake 6.0
> > Brian Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I really am new to this and I can't seem to get Mandrake 6.0
> > uninstalled.
> >
> > I have it installed on a 4 gig drive. I have windows installed on
> > another hard drive.
> >
> > What can I do?
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Brian T
>
> Brian,
>
> There is no uninstall. You will have to either overwrite the existing
> partition with an upgrade or completely reformat the the drive. First of
> all, is there any data that you want to save or back up?
> Other than removing Mandrake 6.0, do you want to upgrade, and/or
> reformat?
>
> If you want to just remove Mandrake 6.0, you should correct your
> partition table.
> Insert a DOS boot disk in your floppy drive. Reboot your computer. At
> the A:\> prompt, type in:
>
> fdisk /MBR
>
> Run fdisk again and reformat your partition.
>
>
> --
> Roman
> Registered Linux User #179293
>
