Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 10:59:05 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cleaning off unix/linux???? Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060521105824.026ec920@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org> References: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org>
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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
>
>
>--
> Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
>
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