Sorting Partition/Formatting To Get XP Back
 

Hi people,

Made a grave error whilst tinkering and dual booting with different Linux Distro. Gone and plonked FC4 on what was my XP hard drive (and I assume getting rid of the partitions - duh!). Plus side is FC4 works fine.... downside is.... not on the drive I want it on.

I have to face the facts I now have a hard slog of putting XP Pro back on. Problem is when put the Windows XP install disk in to sort the hard drive out it boots and goes off to detect hardware configuration/setup and the blank screen... nothing.....

What do I have to do to this drive to get things back to normal? Any tips?

If Windows setup crashes / fails because it doesn't like a Linux-formatted hard drive, you could always use DBAN from http://dban.sourceforge.net/ to wipe and unformat the hard drive. Of course this will result in permanent loss of all data on the hard drive, so disconnect any other hard drives to prevent them being nuked as well. You could then use the XP or FC CD to partition before reinstalling XP.

Thanks for the link. I was looking for a way of really wiping my disk and already considered low level formatting, but I like this better.