On 9/22/2012 11:31 AM, d d wrote:
I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other
software from a hard drive
leaving a completely clean hard drive.
please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email
Since when is GMail not reliable email? Anyway, since you are
subscribed to debian-user, which is an email based mailing list, you
should get this in your email anyway, and responses will be searchable
via Web search engines for anyone else to find who has the same question...
http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage
Download the System Rescue CD image from that link there, and burn it to
a bootable CD-ROM (use your CD burner's option to make a bootable disk
from an iso; don't just copy the iso to a disk.
Use the System Rescue disk to boot up the computer with the hard drive
you want to wipe. Then at the command prompt, run fdisk or cfdisk on
the drive (cfdisk /dev/hda or cfdisk /dev/sda or something like that.
You may need to do trial and error to determine which device it is).
Anyway, with cfdisk up, you should see all partitions on the drive and
can easily delete them and make new partitions. Before exiting cfdisk
though, be sure to hit "write" or whatever the menu option is to
effectively write your partition changes to the drive.
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