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I have two hard drives in my computer one is a linux partition and one has been partitioned Windows. Windows had a totally fatal crash (imagine that <_< ) I went into linux under mnt\windows. Everything is gone. No windows. I don't know how to refomat that drive and i don't know if i can intigrate it into linux or format it for windows again.... could somebody help me???

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I don't know how to refomat that drive and i don't know if i can intigrate it into linux or format it for windows again.... could somebody help me???

You can do either.

If you want reinstall Windows you should be able to just pop in an install or restore disc and let it do its thing. The Windows installer should reformat the partition(s) automatically if they're damaged.

If you want to format it for Linux, just ask. The procedure is a teensy bit involved, and I'm a lazy, so I'm not going to write it up if I don't have to. :)

It might be a good idea to make sure it isn't a hardware failure before messing around with it too much. Do happen to know if the drive has SMART support?

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also if you could post your dmesg from linux

at a prompt type dmesg

afterbooting and past it

also how are you mounting your windows partition in fstab or manual .. if it automouts and you did not set it up post the /etc/fstab file

then one of us can write of the format proceedure.

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