Re: Losing Linux
Quoting Andrei Ivanov (c680789@showme.missouri.edu):
> Ok, this is what I had to do when I needed to free one of my disks for
> Windows.:
> 1. reinstate the mbr on that disk, if it has been changed.
> 2. cfdisk/fdisk to partition to fat16
> After this it SHOULD work, however, when I was doing it, I actually had to
> reformat the disk.
That's because DOS is broken. You have to zero the first 512bytes
of the partition (as DOS does) or it gets confused. It's all
documented in cfdisk's man page.
Cheers,
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