Vista - Reclaim Hard Drive

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?
--
Regards
Bob J
If advise given from anyone, solves problem or not, or if solved from
another source,post back & let us know.
Then we all benefit.

"Bob J" <BobJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5A864B1A-59E3-4939-8292-BDE7157F823B@microsoft.com...
> 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?
> --
> Regards
> Bob J
> If advise given from anyone, solves problem or not, or if solved from
> another source,post back & let us know.
> Then we all benefit.
>

Acronis Disk Director 10 should recognize your Linux partition and let you
do whatever you need to do.

http://www.acronis.com/promo/ADD/disk-director-012.html?source=google&keyword=adds&s_scid=acronis%20disk%20director%2010|693380177&gclid=CICVo7GGxI0CFRlmWAod-GbvLQ

I'm sure there are other utilities, some of which may be free. I've found
Disk Director 10 to be well worth the price.

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/

Thanks for the advice will follow up.
--
Regards
Bob J
If advise given from anyone, solves problem or not, or if solved from
another source,post back & let us know.
Then we all benefit.



"PvdG42" wrote:

> "Bob J" <BobJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5A864B1A-59E3-4939-8292-BDE7157F823B@microsoft.com...
> > 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?
> > --
> > Regards
> > Bob J
> > If advise given from anyone, solves problem or not, or if solved from
> > another source,post back & let us know.
> > Then we all benefit.
> >
>
> Acronis Disk Director 10 should recognize your Linux partition and let you
> do whatever you need to do.
>
> http://www.acronis.com/promo/ADD/disk-director-012.html?source=google&keyword=adds&s_scid=acronis%20disk%20director%2010|693380177&gclid=CICVo7GGxI0CFRlmWAod-GbvLQ
>
> I'm sure there are other utilities, some of which may be free. I've found
> Disk Director 10 to be well worth the price.
>
>