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I am a impressing person with using linux Fedora 3. Yesterday one of my friend came with a laptop (IBM Thinkpad A31). I showed him FD3 but he preferred mandrake linux. So I tried to install Powerpack edition 9. But it is not opening. So I installed the FC3 in his last Windows drive. But he did not like it. So I tried to get back his last windows drive (which in now at extd3 formatted) so I installed Powerquest Partition magic 8. But it is not still running and said partition error. So I need another tools or way to get back his fat32 drive and also to get the previous boot method (I mean to get rid from Grab). Please give me a quick and detail solution, otherwise he will kill me.
Your description is not very clear. If you have a fat32 partition, and a separate ext3 partition, then windows will now be able to see the fat32 partition. If you formated the entire disk, then you will need to format it again when reinstalling windows. Which, I suppose, is when your friend will stab you in the head with a spoon.
Hey I had that problem too. I use slackware so I booted
with slack and used fdisk to change the ID of the partition
If I'm not mistaken it was the -t option.
Thanks guys, you are very helpful. Thoreau, I want to format the ext3 as a fat32, because I need more space under Windows. But I don’t want to change my other windows drives except ext3 one.
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