On 28/01/12 16:34, Colin Law wrote:
To install an OS it is not necessary to boot from hdd, boot from either linux or windows CD/DVD. If you make the disk completely blank as you originally asked it will not be able to boot from the hdd as it will be blank. Colin
I understand the problem. Windows (any version) refuses to install unless you try to install to a drive with a valid boot record. Reformatting using gparted makes this impossible for Windows. I get around it by using clonezilla to clone the mbr from another drive onto the drive that gparted has blanked and re-formatted to NTFS. Windows will then install OK. For some reason known only to Microsoft (must be a commercial consideration therefore) reformatting the drive under the Windows installer will not overcome the problem. Ah well, twas ever thus .... Regards, Barry. -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) Health and Healing advisor to the East Midlands Synod of the United Reformed Church. See http://www.urc5.org.uk/index for information about the synod, and http://www.urc5.org.uk/?q=node/703 for the Synod Healing pages. Replies - b.dr...@ntlworld.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
