re: deleting winxp while using win 98
Tuesday, September 7, 2004 at 1:03 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by yakov
(1 messages posted)
Use Linux to get rid of winXP.....kill it dead....so that it
can never darken your digital door again!! Install a
Linux like SuSE 9.1; it will make room for itself on
your hard drive by moving winXP over and repartitioning.
You will want to use disk partitioning based on its suggested plan, not Linux's total
plan, because its total
plan would be to obliterate winXP and totally convert the
disk to Linux. This you may not want to do at first.
Keep about 10GB or so in the main Linux partition. You
will have a chance here to remake more of the disk to
your liking as well. If you are able..then do it. Linux will
take a while to install, and will ask some questions of
your hardware, like your video card. Pay particular attention to the video card
area and make sure Linux
detects you vid card correctly or else the X windowing
system will not start correctly. After Linux is installed, you are ready to totally
deconstruct winXP. Linux is the
stone cold and absolutely willing destroyer of all things
Gatesean, and will happily annihilate all those nasty little
spy files that winXP kept on you and would not delete,
like 'cookies.dat'.
After you install Linux and it reboots correctly, log
in as the 'root' user using the KDE window manager.
KDE is a window manager choice in your sign in page,
the first page you see in a booted Linux system.
This gives you absolute power over
your system. In Linux, you really ARE the system master
whereas in windows you are only a user. If you ever doubt this, try deleting ANY
windows file that it does not
want you to get rid of. You will soon find out that windows owns that computer that
you bought and not you!! You must do the following changes in Linux as the
root user.
First you fire up a client window,called
a 'console' in Linux, and type "fdisk -/dev/hda". This
will run the Linux version of the 'fdisk' program. Linux's
version is much more robust than windows' fdisk ever
dreamed of being. After the program comes up, type
'm' for the help message. That is a short guide on how
to use the program. Then type 'p' and the program
will show the present partition map of the disk. The
command for fdisk to load from '/dev/hda' is to tell
the program to load from the first disk in the computer
in the ATAPI stack. Windows has the nasty and unchangeable habit of wanting to arrogate
to itself the
first partition in the first drive in any system. It also does
not know that Linux, OS/2, or any other operating system is even there. You will
find an NTFS partition
sitting there in the first partition past the boot loader
and will be called /dev/hda1. It is this partition that you
will want to change the type from NTFS to a type 'f'
partition. Type 'f' is a windows partiton for large sector translated hard drives.
(another windows' 'fix' for a
windows bad bug). Issue a 't' command to the program and
reply to the subsequent 'which partition' question with
a number to the left of that first NTFS partition /dev/hda1
in the partition list on your screen. This will probably be
number '1'. Then you will be asked to type the number
corresponding to the desired partiton type. You will be
told that if you type 'l' here, a list will appear on the screen that will tell you
that a type 'f' partition is a windows 98 partition for large hard drives. You will
want
a type 'f'. After this is done, you may want to type
a 'w' at the next command request in order to write the
appropriate changes to the master boot record and to
exit the program. This returns you back to the console
prompt. Type 'exit' and your console will close. Now
you have changed the partition type of the NTFS to a
Windows LBA partition typically found in win98 and winME and some win2000 machines.
You still have to
format your 'new' partition to get rid of some of the
winXP crap.
First you have to create a mount point for your new
partition in Linux by loading the file manager. You do this
by clicking on the 'house' icon on the bar at the bottom
of the screen. The program that comes up is 'Konqueror'
as a file manager. Go to the 'windows' directory and
use the 'edit' menu to create a new subdirectory called 'C'. This will be where
the new directory of your newly
minted DOS partition will come up.
Now go to the YAST program. You will find it by looking at the popup menu in
the lower left icon on the bottom of the screen.
With YAST, find the disk formatter in Yast's 'system' menu and run it. Once there,
notice your first partition in the slot of /dev/hda1 is now a windows fat32 partition
and not an NTFS. It is this partition that you will want to
'format'. The menu choices to accomplish this is
straightforward. You should also have this partition mounted as '/windows/C' in
the mount column of the
partitioner Do it. Now exit Yast and you have your
new DOS Fat32 partition.
Now go back to your file manager and access the
/windows/C directory. The listing of the empty partition
will come up. Now here is where winXP truly dies totally
dead. There is a program in Linux called 'wipedisk'. It
does just that! Start a client window and type:
"./wipedisk /windows/C"
and the program will use the new addressing system
that you just installed on this disk to seek and destroy
all remaining winXP crap on the disk wherever it may
hide. This is so it will never leak back into your system
by means of 'crosslinked files, etc.
That done, exit the Linux system back to the sign in
page and then shut down the system.
Restart the system with your win98 boot CD and you
should have no problem installing win98. After you install
win98, you will have to shut down, reboot so the installation takes, and then shut
down again. Then you
will have to boot with your SuSE disk 1 and tell the menu
to boot installed Linux system. This is so that you can
re-run LILO or GRUB and rebuilt your initial boot sector
that windows' installation program corrupts when it
intalls windows. If you do not do this, you will not
be able to get back to linux until you boot with the CD.
YAST has a routine to re-run the GRUB install so that
in the end you will have a dual booting win98/Linux
system.
Now you should have created an ordinary user
in your Linux system so that you can surf the internet
safely. With Linux, you kiss viruses goodbye.....
permanently. Surf with Linux and game with windows.
Use Linux business software.....all free and better than
windows 'office'....so that windows cannot spy on you.
Only use windows for games. That is all that it is good
for.
Salud
Yakov the Oktoberist of windows
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003 at 7:20 pm, vallimanalan wrote:
>Hi, Can anyone advise me of how to delete winXP home edition .I also wanted to
format
>my HDD but I dont find any uninstall information for both win 98 and xp in my add
>or remove programs list. how cud I do that...
>Thanks in advance.......
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