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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Hi guys, I have a question. I have a custom built tower with a 160 gig hard drive that has Fedora 13 on it. I just received in the mail Fedora 18 and it won't erase my hard drive. I want to erase the whole hard drive and it is telling me that I don't have enough hard drive space because Fedora 13 is in on the drive. No Kidding??? Why doesn't Fedora 18 have an option right when it boots up to the graphical interface that gives you the option to erase the whole drive that is screwed up. It should be alot easier than this. I can't believe I have to go through a whole bunch of chaos just to ins (HowTos)

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Submitted by nicelinux on 02/23/2013 – Made popular on 02/23/2013

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