Partition Management

[Mark Panen]

On 02/12/2011 03:55, Mike Dwiggins wrote:
> My wife's machine is a full up FC14 x86_64 and I now have the joy of
> trying to put windows XP on due to constraints at her work.
>
> I figured no problem, Install windows from scratch and constrain the
> partition size and reinstall Fedora.  Windows setup craps out with an
> error message saying the drive is corrupted.  The best I can figure is
> that it can't for some reason overwrite Fedora.
>
> Any clues on how to clear enough space for Windows or erase the disk so
> I can make it a dual boot in the normal fashion?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike D.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda with a live linux cd.

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Cheers
Mark
Debian Squeeze 6.0.3 amd64, KDE 4.4.5