finding a linux installed hard drive in xp to reformat

craggers · #1 05-13-2005, 01:29 AM

I have 1 main drive running xp pro and a smaller hard drive running suse linux.
I would like to reformat the linux drive to store my music on. I also have a grub installed as a boot loader.

How can I find this drive in XP in order to reformat the drive or any other way I can get this drive back?
Also What is the best way to unistall grub? I have heard to run 'fdisk /mbr' but as my disk is not partitioned I am very wary of this.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Jazz · #2 05-13-2005, 05:36 AM

Is this what you mean: -

Article ID : 314458

How to Remove Linux and Install Windows XP

craggers · #3 05-13-2005, 09:38 AM

No. In my dual boot options it had linux as the default option and I was trying to make Windows the first option so I changed the the config file in linux. I made a mistake so when I re-booted al I could load into was the grub command line through the linux hard drive but all the grub files resided on the XP hard drive which was not accessible so the grub command line could not access any of its files.

I managed to fix this problem so I will post it in case anyone is as stupid as me.

Make sure your machine boots up in with your XP cd and press 'R' to enter recovery mode. On the command line enter 'FIXMBR' and ignore the scary warnings and enter yes. This reverts your master boot record to its original state and windows will boot up again without any dual boot options. Now I just have to force my machine to see the other drive so that I can re-format it.

Sorry for the crap explanation in the first place and thanks for the reply.

Jazz · #4 05-13-2005, 10:11 AM

No worries....Glad you resolved the issue......

waresoft · #5 05-13-2005, 11:04 AM

Windows XP should see the drive if you goto Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management.

Under "Storage" you should see "Disk Management".

Click on it.

You should see the drive. Just right-click it. Choose Delete Partition, Delete Logical Drive, whatever you need to do. Then create a new partition and format it. You can do all of that from the Disk Management console.

The Disk Management shows all drives even if Explorer doesn't.