On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:44 -0400, James wrote: > Albert, > > Thanks for the response. > > "dd" for the lazy -- takes 2 seconds to wipe the top of the drive > instead of getting rid of numerous partitions that the manufacturer > put on the drive.
But what I'm saying is... you "wipe" the partition table and then you use fdisk (or whatever) to create partitions. The very act using fdisk and writing to the partition table wipes out the previous one. The sending $25 to namesys part was a joke. Namesys isn't around anymore.