I thought windows may try and boot from the linux drive, Thats why i want it erased as drivers will be wrong for desktop. Barry
(Ted Harding) wrote:
On 16-Nov-08 21:41:28, Barry Chater wrote:
hi I am intending to take a hard drive from a laptop and place it in a windows desktop.This drive has Ubuntu on it and so as not to cause any problems in windows, i would like to erase the operating system on it before removing from the laptop. Any tips on the best way to do this? Once in the desktop i plan to install Ubuntu back on it( i still have the live disc). thanks Barry
I'm not sure what "problems in windows" you might get simply by putting a Linux drive in the desktop -- so long as it is not the Primary Master from which the desktop boots!
Simply placing it in the desktop should give rise to the same situation as if you first erased Linux, installed the drive, and then re-sinstalled Linux. Or ami I missing something?
Ted.
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