I think that to do what you want to do, you need to go into the bios
during booting and tell it to boot from the cd.  Then it will boot
from your Windows installation CD and you can reload Windows.  You may
have to reformat your drive (I don't know what Linux does, but that is
one way of wiping the drive clean).  If you do, you will lose anything
that you have on the hard drive.  (If your computer is very old, it
may not be able to boot from the cd, but most motherboards of the last
ten years or so will let you do that.)

After installing Windows, you may have to change the boot drive back
to your hard drive again.

If you have never gone into the bios, see if you have a manual or come
to here for more help.

I suspect that most people who play with Linux have a dual-boot set up
somehow.  This lets them go into Windows or Linux as they choose.

I am confident that you can fix this yourself.  Good luck.

Dean Kukral


----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Reinbold
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 11:19 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Linux/Windows Problem


Hi, well, to tell the truth I am not much of a computer genius, at
least not at the moment. And a friend of mine talked me into putting
linux on my computer. However, I don't have any clue how to use it, it
is not like he said, backwards compatible, and I want to re-install
windows. Now, I put in the startup disk and CD and it doesn't work. I
use the floppy in DOS and do the little autoexec and then it tells me
that it installed the drivers but that there is a problem with
Harddrive space. Then it says that I am missing Command and readme.
Now, I was wondering if there is a way I can wipe my harddrives and
start over again. Or if there is an even easier way, that would be
great as well. Thanks, and someone please get back to me asap.

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