If I'm not mistaken, wipe is IBM specific, and it's not actually a low level format, though many drive manufacturers are calling it that, it's a zero fill utility which writes zeroes to the entire drive.
The debug script I sent along in an earlier email does the same thing except it only writes the mbr with zeroes. It's perfectly safe to use. I've used it so many times I've memorized it. It's the best way I know of to wipe a drive prior to reinstall of any OS. Joebewan On Sunday 30 June 2002 09:44 pm, Richard N. Rico wrote: > 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 -- Valhalla -- Linux good, Fire bad _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
