On 1/29/10 8:50 AM, Joe User wrote:
> Hello Harry,
>
> Thursday, January 28, 2010, 9:22:00 PM, you wrote:
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>
>
>> Boot up something like dban and do a quick wipe of the drive, even the
>> first little bit of the drive should be enough.
>>
>
>> The machine is really trying to boot the hard drive, and is having issues.
>>
>
> dban is not working either. finished with non fatal errors and it
> doesn't appear to have done anything. somethings seriously wrong here.
>
>
What version of dban did you try? Preview release 2.0?
If that does not work, boot up a linux live cd (ubuntu, etc), find the
hard drive, and run DD on it,
fdisk -l should help you find the drive
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M count=100
should be enough.
Harry
