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Thanks danleff, my space problem is solved. After cleaning up, i didn't have to remove the fc3, i burn out a few cds and delete some old setup files.. some old video movies, etc. it took a while, but at least it's cleaner now =) yes, SATA is (somewhat) new technology, and that's why I only use it for storage or cache for video/audio processing. it's faster. I recently read an article about fc3 instalation, here he didn't use linux's boot loader, but windows'.. any comment? and thanks for the grub backup.. a lot of thanks, john

resize? is it ok? I mean, will it not confuse the FC3? I remembered once i do a resize on my old pc's linux partition (a Pentium2 pc), and the linux (mandrake, i think) won't boot.. got many error. as of adding another harddrive, it would be my last resort, since i don't have spare fund to buy a new hdd, and i'm afraid my power supply will burn if i add one more harddrive.. hope i understand you correctly, english is not my primary language.. (sorry) my system: Intel P4 2,8E Processor, Asus p4p800 SE MotherBoard, 2x 512mb PC3200 Visipro DDRAM 2 harddrives: 80gb ATA + 80gb SATA (both Seagate 7200 rpm) 2 optical (dvd-rom + cdrw -> both asus) creative soundblaster live soundcard 128mb soltex ati radeon 9200 videocard lots of yada-yada peripherals.. 1349-Firewire card, IRDA, BlueTooth dongle, printer, modem, onboard lan.. the SATA disk is only used for storage (ntfs), so the xp and fc3 are in the ATA disk. I remembered the device structure in fc3: (I didn't remember the PartitionMagic's details) hda1 = winxp (about 30 gigs) ntfs hda5 = swap (about 800mb) hda6 = fc3 / (about 15 gigs) ext3 hda7 = ntfs partition (labeled DATA in xp -> about 30 gigs) I use grub as the bootloader, installed in MBR. A friend told me to get a Win98 Boot Disk and boot using it and do a "fdisk /mbr" to remove the lilo/grub in MBR, is that the same as fixmbr/fixboot in xp? anyways, as a backup plan, if I re-try to do fixmbr & fixboot, what steps do i have to make to ensure that if I loose the grub again and cannot boot into winxp, I still get the grub back and let the grub load winxp? I hope you understand this last question.. I'm confused myself .. or put it in other term, can I rescue the deleted grub incase i try to do fixmbr&fixboot? one more thing (hope i'm not annoying anybody), what are the steps to remove a linux system normally, assume that I don't have the last problem.. I'm just curious, maybe i miss some preparation or give wrong commands.. Thanks A LOT! john

I have a dual boot at home, an xp and a fedora core 3. I installed fc3's grub on mbr. now, I want to remove the fc3, and use only winxp for a while (i got a project that need the extra space). i've tried to do fixboot and fixmbr using a winxp cd, but it just mix things up and I cannot load the winxp at all, neither is the fedora core 3 (which i've already removed using partition magic earlier in windows). That was a while ago, Now, i re-install the fc3, and the grub, and fortunately my winxp can be load using grub on mbr. can anyone help me? I need to remove the fc3, but don't want to loose the xp.. i hesitate on doing the fixboot and fixmbr again, since it might cause me to loose the xp.. but any idea welcomed. thanks in advance and sorry for my bad english. john