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How to wipe a HD - Back to factory settings

  • 23-11-2004 8:51am
    #1
    daveg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone tell me how to wipe an NTFS partition off a seagate barracuda 160GB drive? I've just bought it and I'm having trouble setting up the drive. I want to wipe the whole thing and start again as I cannot get rid of the NTFS partition. Will a fdisk /mbr work? Will this wipe *everything*?


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  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Well, there are a number of things you could do. If you have access to a broadband/high speed connection you could get a copy of a bootable Linux distro like Knoppix and use the partition tools to remove the partiton.

    You could download a shareware/demo of a partition manager for Windows, or you may have gotten a tool with your hard disk that will allow you to do a "Write Zero" test, which will take upwards of 8-12 hours on a drive that size, but will completely overwrite every shred of data, including partitions, on your disk.

    Thats all I can think of right now, but I'll get back if I think of anything more.


  • #3
    stuey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭stuey


    do a search for hirens boot disk. its an excellent boot disk which will do the job perfectly
    try www.suprnova.rog and the likes


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    In DOS Fdisk should allow you to delete the "non-dos partition"

    There is a debug script that wipes the first 512 bytes of the drive where the partition table lives that works well too.

    Fdisk/MBR writes to the first 400 odd bytes of the drive - boot sector only -should not affect the partition table.

    or downright iggorant - set the HDD to type 17 or type 1 in the BIOS if it has a setting and then try and delete the partition again. This might work since fdisk can't count to 160MB...


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