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

[Michael Hennebry]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, peter wu wrote:

> 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
>   ...

If you ask it, will partition magic remove your linux partitions?

Have you tried booting with something like Knoppix that
does not actually need the hard drive?

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