Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Kohlbach Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Gparted questions Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 11:32:29 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: <87mt5yll5u.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="6a2d38fcd0cb7932341766df22bfeb26"; logging-data="4081017"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Ee4HpyX7ogmDa1PoC0iHb" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eiwld0nYJX3btHxHUGYOeZxVUuE= sha1:yVUnYtA/uneTosSIsRH6gWyOU2U= X-No-Archive: Yes Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:36846 On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:59:27 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > > On 1/30/23 16:25, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote: >> Is it advisable to refromat the entire hard drive? > > Depends on previous use and it may be too old to bother with. If there is no use for any of the old data, yes. >> Since no OS works any more, may I use GParted? > > A good distribution will have GPartEd as a component > of a Live DVD/CD. Suppose any distribution today has Gparted. Boot it and let it do the job. Btw.: Blast from the past. When I installed my first Linux back in 1997 (was a simple CD glued to a computer magazine, not even dealing only with Linux) there was a lengthy how to install it next to Windows (95 I had back then). First, boot Windows, defrag it. Start fips.exe to do the partitioning. On first run the PNP sound card wasn't working. Had to use pnpdump and isapnp to probe for DMA, IRQ and stuff, then try it with the (probably wrong) values, half of the time crashing Linux. *LOL* Ah, good old days. -- Andreas