Try using wipe. Its a free utility that will let you perform a low level format on the drive then you can repartition the drive for use with any OS. You can download it from IBM.com
Rico On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 17:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I remember you have to delete the partitions with fdisk and > then reformat them with dos there is a web site that tells you > how to reformat a drive that was used for linux to use it for > windows I don't remember but if you search for formatting a drive > you should be able to find it. > Linda > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Ben Ocean wrote: > > > At 10:56 AM 6/25/02 -0400, you wrote: > > >At the LILO prompt, type "linux 1" to boot into single user mode. > > > > Thanks. Now, I don't want to get this wrong, so if I want to reformat the > > hard drive, do I type this? > > > > mkfs -t /dev/hd1 > > > > TIA, > > BenO > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list