formatting a partition

[flyboy]

I'm sorry, but I should have said this earlier; I
installed Lindows through the bios - using the boot from
cd option, and Windows XP Pro has since failed to even
recognize that partition, even though it is on one
physical disk. it's like Windows thinks that my disk is
8GB smaller than when I first installed XP, and Lindows
won't recognize that it is installed on a small partition
of a 102GB disk either. the respective OSs think that
they are on their own seperate HDDs, BUT Lindows gives me
the option of starting from "HDA-1" whatever that means,
and then my system begins to boot XP normally.
I want it so that I don't have to be their to select that
option, but power on and boot straight to XP.

Thank you, though
flyboy
>-----Original Message-----
>Go in to your control panel click on system properties-
>go to advanced-click on startup and recovery-click
>settings-in system startup set xp to default. Then go to
>Edit and remove Lindows from the file and save.
>
>Next click on my computer-go to the partitation that you
>set for Lindows and right click it and delete or format
>to the file system you want.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I re-installed Windows and partitioned an 8GB section of
>>my master HDD for using the Lindows Linux OS. I no
>longer
>>need to use Lindows, and every time I turn on my
>computer,
>>unless i select to bypass Lindows, it automatically
>starts
>>it. How do I format that Partition without formatting
>my
>>entire drive?
>>
>>flyboy
>>.
>>
>.
>

[Andy]

Boot the Windows XP installation CD and run the recovery console. Then
execute the fixmbr command. This should allow you to boot directly to
XP. Then right click on My Computer and select Manage. Click on Disk
Management and delete the Lindows partition.

On Thu, 29 May 2003 09:03:25 -0700, "flyboy" >
wrote:

>I'm sorry, but I should have said this earlier; I
>installed Lindows through the bios - using the boot from
>cd option, and Windows XP Pro has since failed to even
>recognize that partition, even though it is on one
>physical disk. it's like Windows thinks that my disk is
>8GB smaller than when I first installed XP, and Lindows
>won't recognize that it is installed on a small partition
>of a 102GB disk either. the respective OSs think that
>they are on their own seperate HDDs, BUT Lindows gives me
>the option of starting from "HDA-1" whatever that means,
>and then my system begins to boot XP normally.
>I want it so that I don't have to be their to select that
>option, but power on and boot straight to XP.
>
>Thank you, though
>flyboy
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Go in to your control panel click on system properties-
>>go to advanced-click on startup and recovery-click
>>settings-in system startup set xp to default. Then go to
>>Edit and remove Lindows from the file and save.
>>
>>Next click on my computer-go to the partitation that you
>>set for Lindows and right click it and delete or format
>>to the file system you want.
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>I re-installed Windows and partitioned an 8GB section of
>>>my master HDD for using the Lindows Linux OS. I no
>>longer
>>>need to use Lindows, and every time I turn on my
>>computer,
>>>unless i select to bypass Lindows, it automatically
>>starts
>>>it. How do I format that Partition without formatting
>>my
>>>entire drive?
>>>
>>>flyboy
>>>.
>>>
>>.
>>