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or you can try to use the fdisk.exe if you can boot from CD ROM, you can get a bootable floppy with fdisk.exe from <a href="http://www.bootdisk.com" rel="ugc">www.bootdisk.com</a>.<br />
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after bootup with the bootable floppy, run fdisk /mbr (this will remove the master boot record of your harddisk) incase you have the lilo installed before.<br />
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than you can reboot your computer and run the fdisk again to remove the partition of your linux.<br />
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if you can boot from CD ROM, do what victorbx suggested.
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Just start a new installation. The new installation will format the hard disk. 
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Like Asby said just start a new installation and it wil format the partitions automatically otherwise you can just type in rm -rf and enter that would basically delete eveery single thing on your linux partition.
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i have using redhat linux 7.2, i would like to reinstall the linux 7.2 because it may be losing some files and the OS installed not complete, due to, it always cant load into the dos prompt. thus, what are the command to format the linux and what is the step i should do? pls give some detail solution, thank<br />
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i have using redhat linux 7.2, i would like to reinstall the linux 7.2 because it may be losing some files and the OS installed not complete, due to, it always cant load into the dos prompt. thus, what are the command to format the linux and what is the step i should do? pls give some detail solution, thank

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how to format linux 7.2?

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