The comment 'live dangerously' was meant to be less of a sarcastic comment than it sounded. Yes, it is dangerous to low level format a drive, but you still can't do any physical harm. The worst thing I've had happen to me is that the disk has been formatted with the wrong number of cylinders, and I've ended up with less room to play with. It still worked, and I installed Windows before I realised what I'd done!! Most modern drives have those numbers printed on them, so you can't go much wrong there. I would be hesitant to repeat it on a drive greater than 8Gig, but 3.2Gig is a little less than that! ----- Original Message ----- From: Jaguar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Linux] I seem to remember a short while ago about a program "ZEROFILL" (search in archives for more info), anyways while I was at that site...the HD manuf. stated that LOW LEVEL format is not a good thing to do anymore on these newest HD's. FYI Jaguar "Simon Norris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Been there, done that!! > > I had fun with this after a crashed install, because I couldn't remove the > partition, and couldn't get back in to use Linux fdisk!! I didn't have a > rescue disk either. Fdisk on Windows can see the Linux extended partition, > as an extended partition seems to be the same under any OS, but it couldn't > see the ext2 partitions inside the extended partition, so couldn't delete > them, and generated the error messages you're seeing. > > The thing I did have was Partition Magic on Windows. Although it didn't know > what the partitions were, it did delete them pretty thoroughly. If you > haven't got Partition Magic, see if you can get hold of an evaluation copy > for a short time. > > Of course, you could always go the drastic route and low level format your > drive. Go on, live dangerously!! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lionel Barrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 2:26 AM > Subject: [newbie] Uninstalling Linux > > > Hey guys, my question is: how exactly do you uninstall Red Hat 6.1. I > tried creating a win98 boot disk, booting it and running fdisk /mbr but all > that did was give win98 back control of the booting sequence. I tried using > fdisk to delete the partition but it said that logical drives were in > existence. When I tried to delete this logical drive, it said none were > there. I tried again to delete the extended partition but still with no > luck. How can I take Red Hat off completely. I have another 1 gig drive now > that I want to put Mandrake 6.1 one on so I wanna blank my 3.2 gig hd to put > win98 on and then put M 6.1 on the 1 gig. How do I get Red HAT off???!!!!! > > > Thanks in advance Lionel > ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
