Thank you again, Thom.
I tried it. But when I did that, I got the following msg:
dd: writing '/dev/sda': No space left on device
3+0 records in
2+0 records out
After PartitionMagic screwed up the partition, all partitions for Linux seem to have zero unused space, i.e., everything apears to be used. e.g.,
Partition Type Size MB Used MB Unused MB
Local Disk (C:) NTFS 106,900.0 30,149.0 76,760.0
(*) Extended 42,821.7 42,821.7 0.0
Local Disk (*) NTFS 4,996.7 27.2 4,969.5
Local Disk (*) Linux Ext3 27,956.8 27,956.8 0.0
Local Disk (*) Linux Ext3 200.3 300.3 0.0
...
Thanks for the help, in advance.
--peter
Thom Paine <painethom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I tried it. But when I did that, I got the following msg:
dd: writing '/dev/sda': No space left on device
3+0 records in
2+0 records out
After PartitionMagic screwed up the partition, all partitions for Linux seem to have zero unused space, i.e., everything apears to be used. e.g.,
Partition Type Size MB Used MB Unused MB
Local Disk (C:) NTFS 106,900.0 30,149.0 76,760.0
(*) Extended 42,821.7 42,821.7 0.0
Local Disk (*) NTFS 4,996.7 27.2 4,969.5
Local Disk (*) Linux Ext3 27,956.8 27,956.8 0.0
Local Disk (*) Linux Ext3 200.3 300.3 0.0
...
Thanks for the help, in advance.
--peter
Thom Paine <painethom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I normally boot from the fedora cd and type linux rescue.
Then I skip upping the network interface, and skip mounting the partitions.
I finally get to a prompt and I type this to clear the drive.
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M count=100
This is for! an IDE drive. If you have serial ata, you will likely need to substitute hda for sda.
Basically this blows away the partitioning information, and makes the drive like new. You should then be able to get the windows cd to boot fine.
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