Questions & Answers for: format hard drive linux

HARD DRIVE FOUND" and installtion aborted. My guess is that when installing XP the option to format using NTFS was accepted. You should get a (Windows 98) DOS start floppy/CD and re-partion and format

...Hard disk 5 times this month(Just trying to install Linux). Ive got the correct partition of XP/Linux now.......and its running well........but did that cruelty affect the disk?? No it will be fine ...

...rather a question. I plan to buy this external HD, but I am not sure that I could format and use it from linux. What is your opinion? should be no problem at all use fdisk to see and format the ...

format and doesn't need all the formatting stuff that windows needs. Then you should be able to copy the desired files from the hard drive onto whatever drive you want on your PC. Let me know how this

hard disk space for Linux-and related file system and other for Windows XP-related file systems. What are Linux file systems? Is it possible? If possible, which should I install first, Linux? Thankyou

...hard drive with linux. I am thinking it is an issue with the partitions. have you tried using your linix program to format the disk? if not try to format it and see what it does on windows xp / vista ...

...format the drive if order to mount it. If it is already formatted as NTFS, it will be read-only to Linux. If formatted at FAT32, Linux should be able to read-write it as well as Windows. fdisk -l: to ...

...hard drive asked me to format.What can i do without format? get a copy of linux puppy and boot from cd while your external drive plugged in, it should recognise this under linux, then get what files ...

...format if the hard drive was formatted on a Mac or Linux machine without choose Fat32 format, the drive will be prompted to be formatted under a windows machine if there is no information on that ...

...format, when you using Windows OS, your hard disk should be either in FAT or NTFS format, if you have linux as secondary os, you may have accidental format the drive with linux OS. Try changing the ...