Re: Reformat

["Richard N. Rico" <rrico ricotek com>]

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, hanfamily earthlink net 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
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