I'd download a gentoo minimal boot CD, boot up with it, then just write
0's to the first few hundred MB of the drive.
If it is the only drive in the system once you're at the command prompt
do:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bz=1M count=300
Will overwrite the first 300MB of the drive with zero'
and
uses a lightweight linux kernel.
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> boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight
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> Subject: [H] Bad Partition
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> Subject: [H] Bad Partition
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> I have a hard drive SATA1 300GB Maxtor, worked fine. I put it in one
> of my machines and booted into windows, moved off all the data and
> then did a format NTFS. Then I decided to use it in ano
I have a hard drive SATA1 300GB Maxtor, worked fine. I put it in one
of my machines and booted into windows, moved off all the data and
then did a format NTFS. Then I decided to use it in another machine
as the boot drive. I didn't have any partitioning software on this XP
machine so I booted o
