On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:58:06 -0700, Bob J
<BobJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>OS: Vista Home Premiium
>
>Currently dual boot to Linux on an external HD, which is fully formatted in
>Linux,
>Windows does not recognize that the drive exist (understand)
>Everything is working just fine.
>If in the future I wish to reclaim the Ext. HD to windows format, how do I
>go about?
>Would a 3rd party partitioning program enable me to see the HD, and reformat
>to windows format?
>Which partitioning program may be best suited to the purpose?
Yea, just get Gparted (free Linux partioning tool) and have it destroy
the partitons on the external HDD. Don't use Gparted to format the HDD
though. Just do that in Vista instead.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
You can also get Gparted and many more useful tools on the Ultimate
Boot CD.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ http://www.ubcd4win.com/