Formatting a hard drive in FAT32

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2005 · #1 Post by **2005** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:42 pm

I want to install Fedora Core 5 on my 320 GB western digital sata hard drive. It wont install though, because I suspect no partitons are in FAT32 (or anything besides NTFS). But when I go into disk management and right click on my non OS partition (about a 100GB partition) and go to reformat my only option is NTFS???? Any ideas??

I7Iz490N · #2 Post by **I7Iz490N** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:48 pm

2005 · #3 Post by **2005** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:15 pm

Cant, dont have it anymore and dont want to. Their has to be a way to do it without partition magic

I7Iz490N · #4 Post by **I7Iz490N** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:43 pm

#5 Post by **palmboy5** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:55 pm

the windows xp 9 in 1 has bootable partition magic and norton ghost, the two most logical and useful things to include

2005 · #6 Post by **2005** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 8:20 pm

Attention PB: I <3 YOU

It worked, now to install Fedora Core 5

I7Iz490N · #7 Post by **I7Iz490N** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:40 pm

#8 Post by **palmboy5** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:50 pm

hope fedora is good for you, unlike ubuntu... who the fuck includes their own bittorrent client in their install and doesnt fucking support mp3

2005 · #9 Post by **2005** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:57 pm

FC5 installed just fine... but I did a dumb thing. I was basically trying to install grub but keep it out of the MBR. In doing so I hoped to keep the windows boot manager and boot record intact.

But I didnt make a fat32 partition, so now thier is no space on the hard drive that both OS'es can see for me to extract the fedora boot image. Even if I had though, I dont know the location and name of the fedora boot image in fedora core 5.

I dont think any bootable linux distros even come with any type of burning software, so I cant back it up to a CD from linux. And I have no flash drives around. I could use my digital camera I guess... if linux detects it which I doubt.

Dont know, easiest thing may just be to reformat and reinstall this time leaving a fat 32 partition. And learning the location of the fedora boot image on FC5 lol.

#10 Post by **palmboy5** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:40 pm

whats with the FAT32 partition? most linux distros format into ext3 during install

2005 · #11 Post by **2005** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:07 pm

It does... but I need a fat32 partition because both linux and windows can see it.

That way I can extract the fedora boot image .bin file into the fat32 partition and then paste it into windows.