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Old 04-26-2003, 01:05 PM   #1
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hey i'm trying to install win nt 40 on my laptop but i had linu on their previelsly. and i can;t get the setup to format the partition so my question is how do i make nt boot disks? or would that solve my problem?
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Old 04-26-2003, 01:24 PM   #2
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When I wanted to load another OS on my drive that had Linux, I found easiest way for me was to zero fill the drive and then proceeded from there. Your problem is you need to know make of HD so you can download their utilities to do the zero fill.
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