PLEASE HELP! How To Delete Hard Drive At Computer Start Up?

Aunt_Harriet

bat999 wrote: »

Has your Puppy linux disc got a program on it called 'gParted'?

yes it seems to.

what do i do please?

bat999

You can use gParted to reformat your hard drive.

Run the gParted program.
It will show your Windows partition.
Right-click on it and select Format to...
You choose ntfs
Also afterwards look in Manage Flags
Make sure there is a tick in the Boot box.

Aunt_Harriet

bat999 wrote: »

You can use gParted to reformat your hard drive.

Run the gParted program.
It will show your Windows partition.
Right-click on it and select Format to...
You choose ntfs
Also afterwards look in Manage Flags
Make sure there is a tick in the Boot box.

ok done that but i can't see anything about windows?

bat999

So you have reformatted it?

Aunt_Harriet

bat999 wrote: »

So you have reformatted it?

yes, and the boot option was already ticked.

bat999

OK
Now that you've reformatted it won't say Windows because you've wiped it out.
So re-boot your computer from the Windows disc and install it.

Aunt_Harriet

i will give it a go.

if its worked , i may be gone sometime installing windows!

Aunt_Harriet

Ahhhh!

still there, and the windows disc can't delete it!


the linus live cd i'm using now is showing 488mib of space now opposed to 119.

bat999

Aunt_Harriet wrote: »

still there, and the windows disc can't delete it!

So you haven't reformatted the disk.

Aunt_Harriet

i'm sure i did now the format is reading ntfs, and this time has a lock on it!

the format option isnt available to click on now