[ltp] how to format HD after having been used in Linux for MS windows

[Bert Haskins]

!!! NOTE !!! These will effectively kill all programs and data on your hard
drive!!!

(1) Try fdisk /MBR to reset the master boot record.
      Then use fdisk to setup your windows partition.
      Set the first partition active.

(2) If this does not work download Drive fitness test from IBM
     and use the option to zero out the master boot record
-- Bert

Tawee Laoitichote wrote:

> I have a 10-gig hard disk on my tp600E laptop and it had been installed
> totally space to linux. Then, one day I realized that I should install it as
> dual systems, 50% disk space to linux and the other to mswindows. But, my
> recovery disk (from IBM) takes me one day in formatting  without any
> success. If, I turn back to 100% space for linux, it works OK.
> Any help to recover my fat32 format.
>
> tawee
>
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