On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 04:26 +0000, Bhaskar _ wrote: > Hi, > > I have Windows XP and FC5 installed on my machine, and use GRUB to boot. > GRUB configuration file sits on /boot/grub as recommended by the book I used > for installation. I now want to format my C drive where my Windows OS sits > and clean install XP. Could you please tell me about things I should watch > out for so that I don't screw up my Linux partition? Would a default install > suffice or should I make sure some options are set differently when I > install Windows? > > Just trying to be careful. Thanks for your help. > > -Bhaskar > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > My 'fdisk -l' output looks like this: > > Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/sda2 2551 19456 135797445 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/sda5 2551 5100 20482843+ e W95 FAT16 (LBA) The only thing I say, is unless you need to share files between OS's, I would use NTFS on XP as it's mroe stable and works lot better and only create 1 partition for it, you don't need all the other stuff unless those are file sharing directories or something. And as the others already mentioned, reinstalling XP will over write the MBR and boot loader initially. But you'll just need to use a rescue CD/DVD to boot with and reinstall grub. The only thing I will add to that, is I am not sure if you use an older Fedora or whatever rescue CD that it will understand sdx instead of hdx. Someone else can chime in on that part. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "Best little town on Earth!"
