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Formatting Windows, without affecting Ubuntu

Asked by Alshaimaa on 2008-07-21

Hi everybody...

My computer has the two systems installed, Ubuntu 7.10, and Windows XP...
the problem is my windows need to be formatted badly, and i know if i did that, i need to re-install Ubuntu too..
My question is, how to Format windows, without affecting Ubuntu?

Thanks in advance eveyone for your help..:)

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Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu Edit question

Assignee:: No assignee Edit question

Solved by:: Bhavani Shankar

Solved:: 2008-07-22

Last query:: 2008-07-22

Last reply:: 2008-07-22

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said on 2008-07-21:

Go to the command line cmd (i.e dos)

and give the following command

format <drive in which win is installed> /Q

ex: format C: /Q

Provides a quick format without affecting ubuntu and thereby more space to ubuntu

regards

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Alshaimaa (shofashion) said on 2008-07-21:

but isn't that going to affect my ubuntu?
i mean my computer already launched through windows partition... so if i formatted it... how could the computer turn on again?

i once heard that you could switch to ubuntu as a main system which your computer launched from.. so whatever you did in your windows partition.. your Ubuntu will still ok...
but i don't know how to do it, could you help me please in it?

Thanks again for your help....

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