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Date:      Sat, 20 May 2006 19:21:23 -0500
From:      Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cleaning off unix/linux????
Message-ID:  <617FCA5B-C026-4F22-8DFD-62FD2FE62601@charter.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org>
References:  <20060520234655.GA9962@thought.org>

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On May 20, 2006, at 6:46 PM, 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

Looking for delpart.exe?  I've used it, it'll do the trick.
http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart.htm

--
Thanks,
Charles
http://bubbabbq.homeunix.net





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