Hello all!

I have windows installed, and I would want to have a "fresh" copy for windows also.

It's like when you buy the hard drive .. nothing is partitioned so you can add whatever you want --- this is what I want to do.

I want to dual boot linux and windows with a SATA drive ( WD RAPTOR 10K RPM ) .. I heard OS's such as Fedora detect SATA drives now -- is this true?

Anyways, as above, I'd want to wipe out my whole system..make new partitions for linux and windows, and install!

I already burned back ups of things I needed. How can I achieve this?

arc4ne; whow, u forgot to mention whether u have other hdd? as for accomplishing dual boot, advise leave w where it is install linux behind it.
reduce w size (depending) on size of hdd. linux requires swapspace, one other thing how much memory installed? linux memory hog it needs more the better it is efficient. linux does have to be partitioned for each would become a (folder) w terms. please read this carefully; http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX section 4.1.8 Partitions and Filesystems expand for more detailed info. imperative!

hey.

Thanks for the response. Currently its just (1) single hd ( SATA ). Linux isn't installed yet as I said, I'd want to reformat the whole drive so I can remake the partitions. Swap Space isn't really a matter because this is just a test. I have 512 DDR memory and spending 1 GB for swap isn't so bad. I was thinking of splitting 15 GB for Linux and 20 GB for Windows.

Probably in the future I'll buy a cheap IDE but for now I need to make this work.

Anything else?

Thanks

Anyone know?

arc4ne; recommend 20 linux & 15 w instead unless u r more comfortable with w. then go with u r original plan.