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30th September 2004, 03:37 AM
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Linux hard drive format to NTFS
Hi,
In my computer right now I have a 20 gig FC2 and a 10 gig XP. I saw this sale in the newspaper for a 120 gig hard drive, for 100 bucks! I am going to install Linux on that, but I would like to somehow make the 20 gig ext2 NTFS. I have been looking for drivers that you can install on windows for ext2, but can't find any. Does anyone have any ideas of how to make an ext2 NTFS? Can I do it through a FC2 bootup/rescue disc?
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30th September 2004, 04:00 AM
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Just boot into Windows and do it that way. Windows doesn't recognize any formats except it's own, so it will assume the partition is empty anyway...
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30th September 2004, 10:48 PM
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Or you could make a FAT partition and actually write reliably to it with Linux.
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30th September 2004, 11:28 PM
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I don't understand. if you mean install FC on the new 120 gig, then use that new Linux to change the other one to NTFS, that won't work because I only have enough slots for 2 HD's. If you also mean make a partition in the 120 gig, I don't want to do that because I store alot of data. I really want to have the 20 gig for Windows because sometimes I use Windows quite a bit, for stuff that is Windows only.
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1st October 2004, 02:25 AM
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Okay. I got the problem kinda fixed, but mostly worsened. I used a boot disk from http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm and used that to destroy the partitions on the 20 gig, formerly Linux, hard drive. Now, when I start the computer, it says everything it used to say, then "GRUB Loading, please wait...
Error 17" Obviously error 17 means there is no GRUB installed, thats because I wiped it out when I destroyed the partitions on the Linux harddrive.
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1st October 2004, 03:07 AM
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Actually, no, you didn't - GRUB is installed in the MasterBootRecord, which is not "on a partition." The "error 17" is because the GRUB bootloader can't find the rest of GRUB to do it's thing. When you (re-)install Windows, it'll write it's own boot-loader to the MBR and you'll be fine.
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