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Hard Drive not being recognized

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xxsk8er101xx

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I installed Linux (Mandrake 9.1) on this drive. The drive is a western digital 80GB and 8MB cache 7200RPM's. I want to format the drive and use it as an external drive.

Now for someone reason windows won't even see the drive. I can understand that it can see the drive itself but not be able to to see the contents. But to not soo the drive at all is mind bogling.

The drive works i know it does.

So I am wondering what it is i have to do to get windows to see the drive whoch mandrake linux 9.1 resides. I would do a search but i have no clue on what to search for.

Thanks!
 
Another option to try would be to put the drive in your computer as the primary drive and see if a Windows installer sees it and offers to format it. Definitely extra work, but might be worth a shot.

Or depending on which version of Windows you're using, you could possibly use the disk management tools to see if that recognizes it (i.e., Right-click on My Computer and select Manage, then select the Disk Management tools).
 
Fdisk or the partition utility of a windows installation disk cannot remove a linux partition. You need to use the partition utility on the linux installation disk to remove it. Some 3rd party utilities may be able to do this as well. The windows partition utilities will cannot detect linux partitions.
 
Ok i got it.

I feel slightly retarded though because i think if i would have just looked at the disk management tool in windows xp i would have found it there and just deleted the partitions with that but delpart worked just fine.

oh well
thanks!
 
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