Install Windows Vista OVER linux

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How can make windows vista see my linux hard drive and format it?

Right now its a full linux installation, when I try to install windows
vista, it doesnt seem to see the hard drive.

I just want to fornat linux and put this windows on there in its place.
 
Michael said:
How can make windows vista see my linux hard drive and format it?

Right now its a full linux installation, when I try to install windows
vista, it doesnt seem to see the hard drive.

I just want to fornat linux and put this windows on there in its
place.
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Without more details it's hard to say what the problem is. Is this the only
hard drive in the system? If it's not is it the boot drive? What other OS's
are installed? Is it a SATA drive? Is it hooked up to a RAID controller?

I'll take a stab at it based on the following. It's the only drive and you
don't have any other OS's installed. Overwrite or "zero fill" track zero.
This will effectively erase everything on the drive.

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/ata_llfmt_what.html

If the Seagate utility doesn't work then most drive manufacturers have a
similar utility that works with their drives.

WARNING - I'll repeat this again. The above will erase everything on the
hard drive.
 
That's why I posted a link to a utility to format the drive. Are you saying
that the drive doesn't show up in the disk management console? I may have
misunderstood what you are trying to do. I thought you wanted to install
Vista on a drive that formerly had Linux on it. Now it sounds like you have
Vista installed and want to delete Linux from a different hard drive, then
partition and format the drive in Vista. In the search box type
diskmgmt.msc. DiskMgmt.msc should show up under Programs above the search
box. Right click on it and pick Run as administrator. You should see the
linux drive there and be able to delete to linux partitions and create NTFS
partitions.
 
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