Problem with partitioning -- How to format hard drive and reinstall Windows?

[peter wu]

Thank you again, Thom.
  
  I tried it. But when I did that, I got the following msg:
  
  dd: writing '/dev/sda': No space left on device
  3+0 records in
  2+0 records out
  
  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.,
  
  Partition         Type       Size MB    Used MB    Unused MB
  Local Disk (C:)  NTFS       106,900.0  30,149.0  76,760.0
  (*)               Extended    42,821.7  42,821.7        0.0
  Local Disk (*)   NTFS          4,996.7      27.2   4,969.5
  Local Disk (*)   Linux Ext3  27,956.8  27,956.8       0.0
  Local Disk (*)   Linux Ext3     200.3     300.3       0.0
  ...
  
  
    Thanks for the help, in advance.
    
    --peter
  
Thom Paine <painethom at gmail.com> wrote:  I normally boot from the fedora cd and type linux rescue.
  Then I skip upping the network interface, and skip mounting the partitions.
  
  I finally get to a prompt and I type this to clear the drive.
  
  # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M count=100
  
  This is for an IDE drive. If you have serial ata, you will likely need to substitute hda for sda.
  
  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.
  

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