Thanks for all your suggestions, I finally got fdisk to run by reinstalling win98 rebooting to a dos prompt and typing C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\FDISKK A long way round I know but insnstall is now proceeding normally-WITHOUT WINDOWS! What really ticks me off is I thought I had already tried this method but i am so frazzled this week I could have been typing anything Will let you know how install turns out
Thanks Again Graham Mark Lane wrote: > At 03:40 PM 10/8/02, you wrote: > >> From a linux boot floppy type >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda >> >> it will run for a little while, and once done, your disk will be >> completelly empty. Make sure /dev/hda is the disk you want to erase! > > > That's a little bit of overkill don't you think. All he needs to do is > over write the master boot record. > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 > > if you just want to remove something like lilo try dd if=/dev/zero > of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 > > >
