Fedora Installation :: Formatting The Whole Of The Hard Disk?

Mar 24, 2011

I have installed fedora 14 xfce.

However, I want to totally format the hard disk so I have no operating systems left on there.

I have created a usb boot disk for installing windows.

So I want to re-format the whole hard disk. Then boot up with the usb and install windows. Once I have done that. Then use the rest of the hard disk to install Fedora 14 from my other usb.

However, I am not sure how to completely format the hard disk. I want to start from a clean disk.

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