Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I do want to write all zeros because I'm trying to reinstall Windoz on my laptop and the installation disk doesn't like the hard drive any more. (I don't get it, it works fine in Debian, but then again what doesn't : 0)
Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya andrew... > > if you are trying to format a disk ... dont bother with dd... > it'd take you hours todo it... > > run fdisk.... and mke2fs manually ... its 100x faster than dd > especially on 20Gb, 40/60/80 Gb drives > - no point to having 20Gb of zeros written > > - you just want the tracks formatted, NOT the data... > ( dd copies track info and data ) > > c ya > alvin > > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > > HI All, > > I've got a hard disk that I wanted to format and I can't quite remember > > how to do this with dd. > > > > Anybody know? > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
