Having problem doing a fresh install of xp

[murphy]

Currently my pc is having a dualboot between xp and
linux. When I try doing a fresh install of xp, during the
setup I was given 3 option

1) Setup windows xp on selected item, press enter.
2)Create partition in the unpartition space, press C.
3)Delete selected partition, press D.

And also the following:

C: partition 1 NTFS 17469mb
E: partition 2 unknown 102mb
partition 3 unknown 11304mb
partition 4 unknown 447mb

And when I choose D to delete selected partition, I was
only given the option to delete partition 1 which is xp,
it seems as though I was not given the option to delete
linux as well, so how am I going to do a fresh install,
making sure everything is remove?

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

To delete the Linux partitions you will need to use the Linux pdisk utility.
Boot with the Linux disk or floppy and use it to remove the unwanted ext2/3
and swap partitions.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"murphy" > wrote in message
...
> Currently my pc is having a dualboot between xp and
> linux. When I try doing a fresh install of xp, during the
> setup I was given 3 option
>
> 1) Setup windows xp on selected item, press enter.
> 2)Create partition in the unpartition space, press C.
> 3)Delete selected partition, press D.
>
> And also the following:
>
> C: partition 1 NTFS 17469mb
> E: partition 2 unknown 102mb
> partition 3 unknown 11304mb
> partition 4 unknown 447mb
>
> And when I choose D to delete selected partition, I was
> only given the option to delete partition 1 which is xp,
> it seems as though I was not given the option to delete
> linux as well, so how am I going to do a fresh install,
> making sure everything is remove?
>
>

[Donald McDaniel]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:26:25 -0700, "murphy"
> wrote:

>Currently my pc is having a dualboot between xp and
>linux. When I try doing a fresh install of xp, during the
>setup I was given 3 option
>
>1) Setup windows xp on selected item, press enter.
>2)Create partition in the unpartition space, press C.
>3)Delete selected partition, press D.
>
>And also the following:
>
>C: partition 1 NTFS 17469mb
>E: partition 2 unknown 102mb
>partition 3 unknown 11304mb
>partition 4 unknown 447mb
>
>And when I choose D to delete selected partition, I was
>only given the option to delete partition 1 which is xp,
>it seems as though I was not given the option to delete
>linux as well, so how am I going to do a fresh install,
>making sure everything is remove?
>
Did you use your cursor keys to select a partition, then choose "D" to
delete it?

Donald L McDaniel
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