<div id="RTEContent">Thank you again, Thom.<br> <br> I tried it. But when I did that, I got the following msg:<br> <br> dd: writing '/dev/sda': No space left on device<br> 3+0 records in<br> 2+0 records out<br> <br> After PartitionMagic screwed up the partition, all partitions for Linux seem to have zero unused space, i.e., everything apears to be used. e.g.,<br> <br> <span style="font-family: courier;">Partition Type Size MB Used MB Unused MB</span><br style="font-family: courier;"> <span style="font-family: courier;">Local Disk (C:) NTFS 106,900.0 30,149.0 76,760.0<br> (*) Extended 42,821.7 42,821.7 0.0<br> Local Disk (*) NTFS
4,996.7 27.2 4,969.5<br> </span><span style="font-family: courier;">Local Disk (*) Linux Ext3 27,956.8 27,956.8 0.0<br> </span><span style="font-family: courier;">Local Disk (*) Linux Ext3 200.3 300.3 0.0<br> </span>...<br> <br> <span style="font-family: courier;"></span><br> Thanks for the help, in advance.<br> <br> --peter<br> <br><b><i>Thom Paine <painethom@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> I normally boot from the fedora cd and type linux rescue.<br> Then I skip upping the network interface, and skip mounting the partitions.<br> <br> I finally get to a prompt and I type this to clear the drive.<br> <br> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M count=100<br> <br> This is for!
an IDE
drive. If you have serial ata, you will likely need to substitute hda for sda.<br> <br> Basically this blows away the partitioning information, and makes the drive like new. You should then be able to get the windows cd to boot fine.<br> <br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-=/>Thom -- <br></blockquote></div><p>
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