cleaning off unix/linux????

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Sun May 21 08:59:48 PDT 2006


Download the utility to low-level format the drive from the drive makers 
website.

         -Derek


At 06:46 PM 5/20/2006, Gary Kline wrote:
>         Gang,
>
>         A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K
>         on the drive) may be entirely good.  I am trying to avoid having
>         to buy a DOS/Win platform.  I've had both W2K and FBSD or Ubuntu
>         on this one machine.  For various reasons I need one DOS machine.
>         (Already have 7 or 8 *Nix servers.)   The Windows 2000
>         "Professional" CD find some other non-Windows partition and
>         press "D" and "L" as I will, the installation CD keeps
>         complaining.  Eventually I have to hit F3 to quit.  So, nutshell,
>         is there any way I can completely remove any trace of *Nix?
>         -----I remember having a DOS floppy and typing an undocumented
>         MBR \ command that wiped the drive clean of this boot record,
>         but this was [mumble] years ago.
>
>         thanks for any tips, y'all,
>
>         gary
>
>
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>    Gary Kline     kline at thought.org   www.thought.org     Public service Unix
>
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