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Cannot install Centos 6.3 since the hard drive came from a Windows machine

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August 2, 2014 6:08:38 AM

Hi there, I sure hope someone can help me on this.

I cannot install Centos 6.3 on a machine since the hard drive thats on it originally came from a Windows machine.

When Anaconda asks to save the settings to disk, it says 'invalid file or unknown file system'.

Windows is NTFS, we all know that, but how can I reuse this 1 TB hard drive to work on this new machine?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

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August 2, 2014 6:20:29 AM

Delete all partitions and create new ones?
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August 2, 2014 9:32:29 AM

Hi No Idea...

Maybe I wasn't clear. This is a fresh new install. There's no OS on that machine. The hard drive I've installed on that machine came from a windows machine: ie NTFS.

The problem is I can't install Centos 6.3 on the machine since it keeps telling me 'Invalid File System'.

I'm sure there's a way in tricking Grub (the Linux boot loader on Anaconda) to think that it is ext4 and not NTFS,

Any idea anybody?

Thanks
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August 2, 2014 9:47:12 AM

You've already had the answer. Delete all partitions on the disk and start over. You might just want to check on a Windows machine if the disk is a Dynamic Disk; if so convert it back to a Basic Disk.
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August 2, 2014 9:55:39 AM

As above. Boot from the install disk, delete all partitions, let it format and install what it needs.

There is no 'tricking it' into thinking the file system is something else.
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