Hello!
I have a PC with Winxp on the primary HD and Mandrake 10.1 (buggy) on slave drive.
when I log into Windows, I can't see the second HDD. How can I re-format my slave to NTFS, so I can use that as a backup to my data?
Many thanks

eyedoc

That's a windows question!

Start, settings, control panel, administrative tools, computer management, disk manager

There you can select your linux partitions and remove them.

Moved: This thread is more suitable in General and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

As an aside, all Windows questions belong in General. What you can do is drop all the partitions on your slave drive, then repartition it as NTFS. Of course, that will blow away your Linux installation. Good luck with it -- J.W.

You might be able to do it through windows, alternatively, boot into your mandrake cd and use the disk util (fdisk, cfdisk or whatever) to remove linux (boohoo) and make it one big fat ntfs filesystem (boohoo again).

Right click my computer on the desktop
click on 'manage'
click on disk management
You should see a HD with however many gigs your hard drive is with no actual 'File system'
Right click on it
Click the 'delete partition' option

And then make a new one. If you need help making a new one, just holler

EDIT: And beware the bootloader. It could get mad at you for doing that. If it gives you an error, boot from the XP Cd and go to the recovery console and type:

fixmbr

Which will replace your master boot record and it 'should' delete the bootloaders entry in there.