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10-23-2004, 12:05 AM
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Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: hell
Distribution: winxp
Posts: 87
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lose 200$ or sace 200! HELP HELP HELP!
how do i delete suse pro linux off my hard drive!
i have tyd every bloody thing
i have now figerd out that this is a hacked ver of suse pro 9.1 by NOVELL the time is up and the damn thing took over my drive i never seen this coming
PLSSSS HELP ME!
i don't want to waste 200$ on a hard drive
I NEED TO DELETE linux i do not want any thing on my drive
i have been offline for 13 mouths and im going mad
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10-23-2004, 01:39 AM
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HCL Maintainer
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: McCalla, AL, USA
Distribution: Gentoo on headless; Arch on everything that requires a GUI
Posts: 6,941
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Where is SuSE located?
Open a terminal and issue "/sbin/fdisk -l" (lower case L) as root,
then post the output in here.
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10-23-2004, 02:02 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Pennsylvainia
Distribution: Slackware / Debian / *Ubuntu / Opensuse / Solaris uname: Brian Cooney
Posts: 503
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get a windows 98 boot disk and boot to it
do fdisk, deleate all the suse partitions, create some windows partitions
then restore the master boot record with
fdisk /mbr
then install windows as normal.
If that doesnt work, you can go to the website for the drive, and download their utility package. boot of the drive manuf's disk, and do a "write disk pack" or "low level format" This is much more time consuming, but it will COMPLETLEY overwrite and deleate everything on the drive.
good luck, and have fun setting up your shiny new dual boot winxp pro/slackware 10 system 
Last edited by Kahless; 10-23-2004 at 02:03 AM.
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10-23-2004, 02:07 AM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2002
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 540
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You don't have to buy a new harddrive silly! 
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10-23-2004, 02:20 AM
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HCL Maintainer
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: McCalla, AL, USA
Distribution: Gentoo on headless; Arch on everything that requires a GUI
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Re: lose 200$ or sace 200! HELP HELP HELP!
Quote:
Originally posted by OMEGA-DOOM
i don't want to waste 200$ on a hard drive
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What kind of hd do you have that cost $200?!?!? There aren't
many that are that expensive...
Just pull it out of the case and put a 5-lb. magnet up against it
for 5 minutes - that'll get rid of SuSiE, and all her friends. ;^)
Quote:
Originally posted by OMEGA-DOOM
i have been offline for 13 mouths and im going mad
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And btw - how long a time period is 13 mouths?
Last edited by Bruce Hill; 10-23-2004 at 02:22 AM.
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10-23-2004, 04:35 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 19,192
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OMEGA_DOOM: yet again you have posted the "how do I remove Linux" thread. Why not read all the answers you have been given?
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10-23-2004, 06:11 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2002
Distribution: t2 - trying to anyway
Posts: 2,541
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Can't you find a different lame problem for your next ten posts?
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10-23-2004, 07:28 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 386
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this is probably the most hateful thing i have ever posted here (my apologies to those who know me), but for a 54 year old man (at least that is what your profile says) you have terrible spelling and grammar. you have no concept of gathering information on your own or going to the source to get said information. looking back over your posts, you hardly ever respond to posts that give you either the answer or a place to look for one. if you are having so much trouble with linux, why not just give up and drop the windows xp cd in the drive and reboot. it isnt that hard to get rid of an OS when you have another one with you. one will overwrite the other if you tell it to, plus the windows xp install can delete partitions and thereby get rid of suse or fedora or whatever linux distro you have installed.
your posts are useless and frustrating to those of use who come here to help
how do you know and what do you mean by a hacked copy of suse? did you not know that novell bought suse????
when you install other OSes do you not see them taking over your hard drive???? that is what operating systems do!!!! how could you not see that happening?????
here, maybe this computer would be better suited for you
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10-23-2004, 07:47 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Florida
Distribution: Mandrake 9.1 for now
Posts: 205
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Re: lose 200$ or sace 200! HELP HELP HELP!
Quote:
Originally posted by OMEGA-DOOM
how do i delete suse pro linux off my hard drive!
i have tyd every bloody thing
i have now figerd out that this is a hacked ver of suse pro 9.1 by NOVELL the time is up and the damn thing took over my drive i never seen this coming
PLSSSS HELP ME!
i don't want to waste 200$ on a hard drive
I NEED TO DELETE linux i do not want any thing on my drive
i have been offline for 13 mouths and im going mad
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Since you list winxp in your distro profile, boot it, if you cannot insert the INSTALL CD and go to the recovery console then type FIXMBR.
This wil reinstall the windows boot loader, then boot to XP and manage your computer, locate the disk manager and click on it. Locate the linux partitions and tell windows to delete them it will be all to happy to fufill this request for you. Then if you are sure yo do not want to try linux again, rpartition the free space you created so windows can use it.
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