<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:56 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allen@math.binghamton.edu">allen@math.binghamton.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
<br>
I am using a laptop with two hard drives in it, one which has Windows<br>
Vista installed on it, and another physical drive which is a Data drive,<br>
each of them are 150 GB in capacity. I wanted to convert my Data drive<br>
into a disk that has Fedora 13 (KDE Spin) on it. I made a 2GB USB pen<br>
drive into a LiveUSB with the KDE Spin ISO file on it and my computer<br>
boots up fine into Fedora 13 with it. However, when I go to "Install to<br>
Hard Drive," I am presented with a conundrum. When I go to select which<br>
drive I want to install the Fedora OS to, the drives are virtually<br>
indistinguishable, save for differing IDs which are just strings of random<br>
numbers and letters. I can't, for example, tell from this how much space<br>
is left on either, or which drive has Windows installed on it, and I don't<br>
want to partition one for Fedora 13 only to find out that it was the drive<br>
with Windows on it and end up losing all of my information. Does anyone<br>
know of a way to distinguish between the two, or can anyone help me<br>
through this process? Thank you for your time and help!<br>
<br>
Dan<br>
<font color="#888888">-</font><br></blockquote><div><br>If you are more familiar with Windows use Windows to delete the unwanted volume/drive. That way, you should easily be able to discern which drive is empty. For Vista do: Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management (Local) ->Storage -> Disk Management. Right-click on the Data volume (drive) and select :"Delete Volume".<br>
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