Removing FreeBSD

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

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Bnw CmpRpr wrote:
> Hi. I recently purchased a HDD from a man that runs a data center, and
on this HDD is FreeBSD. My problem is I want it off, and for some
ungodly reason, it keeps coming back. I cant format the drive with
Windows, and I cant load it as a slave to format, either. Any help would
be greatly appreciated. Thanks
> -
> M White
> Black and White Computer Repair
>
>

The following assumes the drive is /dev/ad0 (the OS name for it) and
it is modern enough to not get confused by a low level format... boot
in single user mode (item 4 on the menu) and at the command line do:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=1

This will clear the MBR partition table and make the machine think it
is a brand new drive.


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Aryeh M. Friedman
FloSoft Systems, Java Tool Developers
Developer, not business, friendly
http://www.flosoft-systems.com

    "Free software != Free beer"

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http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/index.php
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