Hard drive problem installing OS - TechRepublic
General discussion
November 16, 2005 at 11:08 AM
conor20_ie

Hard drive problem installing OS

by conor20_ie . Updated 17 years ago

Hello,
I just tried to install LINUX on a windows 98 system with the presumption that the install would first format the hard drive however it actually partitioned it and then crashed (I think because there was not enough space for LINUX to fit.)

Now when I put in any windows recovery CDs and floppys, they fail to install anything due to the hard drive being not in the correct format (eg not fat 16 or fat32 due to the linux partition).
I can’t get to C: on DOS promt to even try to type “format c:” because it says it’s an invalid drive.

Does anyone know how I can get to this? Perhaps writing zeros to the drive would get rid of the partition but I dont know how to even do that, especially without being able to get to c: on DOS.

Thanks.

This discussion is locked

All Comments