On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 02:18:59PM +0000, Todd Gruhn wrote: > I want to to clean out crap that Microsoft forces on > that drive. > > MS Windows want to stop me from "Uninstall" stuff that they > installed... > > Can this be done with NetBSD?
"yes" - in several variants. You can wipe the whole disk content, e.g. by overwriting it with zeroes or random data (something like: dd bs=1m if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/rsd0d) Or you can kill single partitions - usually the Windows stuff shows up as extra GPT partitions, use something like "gpt show -a sd0", identify the partition you want to kill and then remove it with "gpt remove -i $index". After removing the GPT partition you can reboot into windows and tell it to resize the neighbour partition and fill the new space again. If you mean inside a NTFS partition and w/o destroying everything else on that partition: that is tricky and requires tools from pkgsrc, but should be doable. But I guess you are talking about the extra partition stuff, which is simple to remove - see above. Martin
