Partitioned hard drive

[subclubkid]

I have a 120 GB hard drive. When I first installed XP I left 20 GB for Linux, and then I installed Linux on it. Well I now have a seperate Linux machine running, so want to reformat the 20 GB's so I can use them again. Is there a way to do this without having to reformat everything?

Thanks in advance for any help

[HillJack]

In Windows, use the Disk Management feature of the Computer Management console and delete the Linux partition. Create a fresh Windows FAT32 or NTFS partition and format it.

Grab yourself the Windows ME bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com and boot up the computer, run FDISK /mbr and reboot the computer.

Poof, Linux SHOULD be gone and everything back to normal.

(I THINK -- It's been awhile. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong)

[subclubkid]

see this is why I love this place. I post a question, and then 10 mins later I have the solution. Thanks man, its formatting as I type this.

[HillJack]

Let me know how it works out!

[subclubkid]

Ok now I have another problem. I managed to reformat the other part of the hard drive, but its not a logical drive. That doesnt bother me. But when I used to boot up I was brought to a screen that asked if I wanted to boot Windows or Linux. And the screen is still there, and if I dont select anything it will go to Linux where it trys to load and fails, I have to hold in the power button to restart it. This is a huge pain in the ass...so anyone have any idea how to get that off?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[HillJack]

fdisk /mbr from the Windows ME bootdisk didn't remove lilo/grub (the screen asking which OS to boot too)? Perhaps run just fdisk and reset the active partition.