On Wednesday 04 August 2004 10:11 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > I'm auctioning some hard drives and I want to wipe them and format them. > I had all kinds of trouble creating boot floppies for some reason--even > though no errors were reported I couldn't boot them. I ended up having > success with making a bootable cd. > > So I'm using autoclave to wipe the hard drive; is there a linux-based > tool (bootable floppy or cd) I can use to format the hd? What flavor > should I format it as? Do I need anything other than fdisk? > > Todd Why not just hook them up to one of your ide cables with the jumpers set to a slave and run harddrake. you can just set them as a windows fat32 partition and reformat from there. ?? -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842
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