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Can i install ubuntu without formatting the hd?????????

p.s. like the effectiveness of ubuntu but it takes a more technical approach and that i'm not.

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yuenkai (yuenkai) said : 		#1

you can format your harddisk when installing windows xp.

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newbee (rachidfriend) said : 		#2

tried that but it doesn't work it gives me a message that it couldn't write to the disk (write error) that's why i want to format it within ubuntu before ik install the xp cd

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Witold Krakowski (wkrakowski-gmail) said : 		#3

You should boot the livecd and use gparted to remove partitions.
Please let me know whether it helps

Regards,

Witold

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newbee (rachidfriend) said : 		#4

when i start op gparted it says that i am not logged in as a root user but when i try to log in as root user i can't

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sosoy77 (sosoy77) said : 		#5

if you don t need any data from hdd,search for power max and do the thing,this work for me.but my dvice is to keep linux its better then win

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ghope5 (ghope5) said : 		#6

Iam useing a western digital hard drive Ineeded to format . I downloaded WDC Data recovery for CD from there site this will make a floppy disk that will work with many drives It worked for me
Ghope5

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