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XPpro/Mandrake9 dual-boot uninstallation left-over...

Asked by Groovatism in Linux

Tags: boot, disk, dual, left

About a month ago, I decided to try Mandrake9, but rather than putting it on a separate hard drive, I chose to go the dual-boot route. The Windows OS is XPpro, the hard drive is a 60Gb Maxtor. I am a Linux nOObie, and the dual-boot situation did not work well at all for me. I'm assuming that the partitioning that I used for installing Mandrake wasn't right. After "uninstalling" Mandrake, the OS selection device which comes up at system startup was still there. I couldn't figure out how to get rid of it so I saved everything which I wanted to keep (to CDs) and "completely" repartitioned and formatted the drive (using XPpro, no other disk utilities). I then installed XPpro and ... lo and behold ... that doggone Mandrake bootup selector was still there!
NOW, all I want to do is COMPLETELY format the entire hard drive (scrub it totally clean), so it's just like it came fresh from the factory, so that I can partition it and just install XPpro. Can this be done by just using the XPpro CD, or do I need to use some other harddisk utility? Either way, can you please tell me EXACTLY how to accomplish this goal? I'd like to do this ASAP, as this predicament is on my "good" computer.
PS ... I'm going to try Redhat next, on a dedicated computer.

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XPpro/Mandrake9 dual-boot uninstallation left-over...

Asked by Groovatism in Linux

Tags: boot, disk, dual, left

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