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Re: [PLUG] reformatting a disk
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What is a good option is to low level format your hard disk, I just did it
to an old drive and it cured the little problems of it loosing sectors
every so often. You can low level from your BIOS or from a disk utility.
--
-Rune
In a display of perverse brilliance, Carl the repairman mistakes a room
humidifier for a mid-range computer but manages to tie it into the network
anyway.
-- The 5th Wave
it's the same old story; boy meets beer, boy drinks beer... boy gets another beer.
-- Cheers
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Michael Whitman wrote:
:Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:56:42 -0500
:From: Michael Whitman <michaelw@palawnet.com>
:Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:Subject: [PLUG] reformatting a disk
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:What should i use to totally reformat a hard disk on which i have installed
:LILO and RH linux. I tried to use DOS fdisk on a bootable floppy, but it
:didn't seem to be able to do anything with the linux partitions. I tried
:to install NT 4 ... and upon reboot it just hangs with a cursor and 'LI'
:(LILO remains?). My goal here is to totally purge the hard drive and do a
:fresh install of linux, and i would like to do it from a bootable
:floppy. The RH install program doesn't seem to give me the option to do a
:total reformat.
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:Michael P. Whitman
:Programmer
:LAW.com
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:mailto:michaelw@palawnet.com
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