From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 21 15:59:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC32C16A519 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 15:59:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D940443D46 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 15:59:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4LFxChg055889; Sun, 21 May 2006 10:59:12 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060521105824.026ec920@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 10:59:05 -0500 To: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org> References: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: cleaning off unix/linux???? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 15:59:48 -0000 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 > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.