From: "Brunner, Brian T." <bbrun...@gai-tronics.com>
> > >> 1) Insert CentOS install CD until you come to the first screen.
> > >> 2) Open virtual console : Alt+F2
> > >> 3) # shred -vzn 65536 /dev/hda
> > >> 4) Watch messages scroll by. Wait until it's finished (important),
> > >> then post here to tell us the results.
> > > Mean!
> > And particularly useful to all the other people who follow
> > instructions to use google search to find procedures.
> Per shread's manual pages, this tends to fail for ext3 and other
> log/journaled file systems.
> Step 3 should instead be "badblocks -f -p 10 -w /dev/hda". The drive is
> now ready for the new system to be installed.
> mkfs.ntfs /dev/dha should suffice as well, and is much quicker.
Maybe a quick
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
before, to clean the MBR...?
JD
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