Greetings all! What a WONDERFUL day eh? Sun, breeze, good view of a park across the street, and visions of steak are bouncing in my head.
Now, for the dark cloud on this day. The things I loath about being a geek.
1.) everyone has a problem
2.) everyone has suggestions or other type of 'help'
3.) everyone questions the answers when they do not like them
4.) everyone wants an explanation even if they do not understand it
5.) everyone wants to learn your trix, but never give you credit
6.) And the dreaded 'Is it fixed yet?!?!' when you are 5% into a reformat. LOL!
Anyhoo, I got 'roped' into #1-3-4-6 with my wifes aunt. She has this old P3 800 that "some guy built for her, and left no CD's or manuals."
-customer speak for "I threw it away because I did not know what it was for."- And her current XP; -cough-spit-gag-, install is so bloated/hosed that a boot&nuke is all I can think of. She and 'hers' are those types that click on every ad that pops up. "OOOOO, pretty smilies and 'cute' cursors? I MUST HAVE IT" -click- She's not the XP cd, but I want to put on W2K anyway since it IS a P3 800
On with it. She has a TON of pictures on this drive; and of course does not know what a 'backup' is, and they need saved. I was going to slave an HDD, boot to Knoppix, and copy the pic folders over, kill and rebuild her drive, and move the pictures back. EZ enough I guess.
My problem and question is this.
If I slave this drive and boot to Knoppix; or insert other distro here, can I format it INSIDE Linux with an NTFS partition? Or must I create the partition before I boot the rescue CD?
Easiest for me is to install the drive and create the partition, since booting to her XP installation only works 1/3 of the time, and I do not trust it being stable enough to actually do anything right.
Thanks a ton community!
Now, for the dark cloud on this day. The things I loath about being a geek.
1.) everyone has a problem
2.) everyone has suggestions or other type of 'help'
3.) everyone questions the answers when they do not like them
4.) everyone wants an explanation even if they do not understand it
5.) everyone wants to learn your trix, but never give you credit
6.) And the dreaded 'Is it fixed yet?!?!' when you are 5% into a reformat. LOL!
Anyhoo, I got 'roped' into #1-3-4-6 with my wifes aunt. She has this old P3 800 that "some guy built for her, and left no CD's or manuals."
-customer speak for "I threw it away because I did not know what it was for."- And her current XP; -cough-spit-gag-, install is so bloated/hosed that a boot&nuke is all I can think of. She and 'hers' are those types that click on every ad that pops up. "OOOOO, pretty smilies and 'cute' cursors? I MUST HAVE IT" -click- She's not the XP cd, but I want to put on W2K anyway since it IS a P3 800On with it. She has a TON of pictures on this drive; and of course does not know what a 'backup' is, and they need saved. I was going to slave an HDD, boot to Knoppix, and copy the pic folders over, kill and rebuild her drive, and move the pictures back. EZ enough I guess.
My problem and question is this.
If I slave this drive and boot to Knoppix; or insert other distro here, can I format it INSIDE Linux with an NTFS partition? Or must I create the partition before I boot the rescue CD?
Easiest for me is to install the drive and create the partition, since booting to her XP installation only works 1/3 of the time, and I do not trust it being stable enough to actually do anything right.
Thanks a ton community!
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