Anyone know how to reclaim a Linux partition for Windows?

[Doctor_J]

I use to have a dual-boot system on a 40GB HD with Windows on half and SciLi on the other. I dropped the drive into my new Windows machine as a spare. Windows now only recognizes the Windows partition on the old drive - I'd like to get the 20GB that was dedicated to Linux back. Google doesn't seem to help. FWIW, I am running Win2K on the new machine.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Not specific instructions, but my guess would be...

Format the Linux partition to whatever file system you're using for the Windows partition (NTFS?) and then just resize the Windows partition to take up the full 40gb. Could be wrong, but that's what it seems like would be required to me.

[Doctor_J]

2. How do I format the Linux partition to WIndows?

There seems to lie the problem. When I boot up in Win2K, the OS doesn't "see" the linux partition as anything. I can't get at it to format it.

[LSK]

3. right click on my computer - choose manage

Then choose disk management.

Do you see the partition there?

[Doctor_J]

4. Yes, I do

there are also a couple vestigal little partitions on my fireball. The allocation for that drive looks like this:

E: 19.52 GB FAT32 Healthy (Active)
13.97 GB Healthy
997 MB Healthy
89 MB Healthy
SYSTEM_SAV (F:) 2.73 GB FAT32 Healthy

I would like ideally to merge the 14GB, the 997MB, the 89MB, and the 2.73GB into one FAT32 or NTFS partition.

[LSK]

5. so delete those partitians and then create a new one

Is it letting you do that?

[Doctor_J]

6. Yes, I was just about there.

Thanks very much. Is there anything to choose from between NTFS and FAT32?

[LSK]

7. choose NTFS