On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 10:17 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > If nothing else you can always wipe the drive the forceful way; > > boot into Linux (or the recovery disk) and do something like, > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 > > > > **Warning, that will delete EVERYTHING on the hard drive! > > Is bs=512 necessary or useful? I recommend to use much bigger bs. the bigger the bs is the faster your hd is wiped > Would cp /dev/zero /dev/hda do the same thing? I think this won't work. cp is a file system command and what you want is killing your file system -- Vassilios Kotoulas GPG Key ID 0xb1703df8
