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Formatting a hard drive in FAT32
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:42 pm
by 2005
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??
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:48 pm
by I7Iz490N
lol
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:15 pm
by 2005
Cant, dont have it anymore and dont want to. Their has to be a way to do it without partition magic
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:43 pm
by I7Iz490N
lol
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:55 pm
by palmboy5
the windows xp 9 in 1 has bootable partition magic and norton ghost, the two most logical and useful things to include
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 8:20 pm
by 2005
Attention PB: I <3 YOU
It worked, now to install Fedora Core 5
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:40 pm
by I7Iz490N
lol
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:50 pm
by palmboy5
hope fedora is good for you, unlike ubuntu... who the fuck includes their own bittorrent client in their install and doesnt fucking support mp3
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:57 pm
by 2005
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.
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:40 pm
by palmboy5
whats with the FAT32 partition? most linux distros format into ext3 during install
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:07 pm
by 2005
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.