I dual booted my computer with Windows XP and Mandrake about a year ago, using partition magic to create the extra partition for Mandrake. It works fine but now I need to reformat Windows XP and I also want to get Mandrake off and the Lilo boot loader... anyone know how I can do this?
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Urgent: reformating dual booted sys please help
- Thread starter ky1e
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alright I just did the xp reformat on my current windows partition, and it changed the MBR so that windows loads now instead of linux. but that means that about 20 gb of my hd is hidden because I can't get access to my other linux partitions. Is there a way to make a boot disk to boot into linux if I wanted?
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Use partition magic to format the the last partition, it should see it. Format it in same file system as XP (NTFS) and then merge the partition or leave it seperate as a bulk file (pictures, movies) repository.