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car3

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is it possible to use DSL-CD to delete a windows xp ntfs partition?

I need a way to get XP off my laptop.

thanks,
Jeff
 

Nothinman

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Sure, any installation disc probably has fdisk and whatever else you might need to get rid of that partition.
 

car3

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i found the partition at /mnt/hda1

fdisk /mnt/hda1

You will not be able to write the partition table.

Unable to read /mnt/hda1

:confused:
 

phisrow

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Ah, ok. Your problem is that you are trying to fdisk a mounted drive, not a block device. The drive's name is hda, with the first partition being hda1.

What you want to do is talk to the block device directly. fdisk /dev/hda . You may need to open a special shell, or use sudo, in order to have the permissions to do that; but it should work.