Rod, you just hit the nail on the head. that is the problem I am having. The
only part of that that I didn't try is changing the mode on the HD. Thankx
for the tip!
-----Original Message-----
From: Rod Baxter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 7:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Ultimate Formatting
Easy.
Boot from a dos boot disk and use dos fdisk. Delete all partitions and
reboot from the floppy. Then type fdisk /mbr which will rewrite a standard
master boot record.
But, (as allways!!) if you cannot delete an extended partition because it
says 'cannot delete while logical drives exist' and when you go and look
there are no logical drives you need to cheat a bit.
Go into the bios and change the disk drive settings. If its running LBA,
change it to normal. Reboot and you will find the logical drives will have
dissapeared. Delete everything, then reboot and put it back to LBA mode.
Then go through the loop again, and finish with the fdisk /mbr command.
If its a small disk and you are not running LBA, then just change the drive
type to something else.
Rod
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelly, Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Newbie'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 9:23 PM
Subject: [newbie] Ultimate Formatting
> Anybody know how to completely wipe a HD clean?? I am having major
problems
> and need to start over. I need to blow away partitions and all. Make it
just
> like new.
> Thanks,
> Chris Kelly
> Registered Linux user 185775
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