On 6/24/05, Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:40:45PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 6/23/05, M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > > > > > > > I think that I managed to format the entire drive in fdisk, but the > > problem persists. I thought that I had erased hda2, but it still > > complains. > > fdisk does not format drives. > > > > > What is the fool-proof way of formating an old hard disk before install? > > You should not need to format (low level format, i.e. lay down track > and sector information on the medium) your hard drive. Ever. > > What you probaably want to do is clobber the partition table so you > can start over. > > * Use fdisk and delete one partition at a time untill you've deleted > all of them. > > * Use dd to write 0s to the partition table. Something like this > should do it: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=2 ; sync > > Do this from some other linux, like a floppy distribution > (e.g. tomsrtbt) or a live CD distribution. > > > -- > > Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign > Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards > and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email > http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email > > Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB > Thanks. I managed to do it in qtparted with knoppix, but I will certainly remember your advise for next time. I´m man dd now... Dotan http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/457/spears_britney.php Britney Spears Lyrics
