Michael Havens wrote: >I am like so tripping! According to knoppix I have 3 hda drives (the first >being used by windows) and the scsi is in use by windows. This is like so >weird! > > What SCSI adapter do you have? When you are booting the computer, the SCSI adapter should display it's BIOS boot message. Pressing some key combination at that moment, like Ctl-C or Ctl-A should bring up the SCSI BIOS utility program. At that point you have not even booted an OS. Somewhere in that SCSI BIOS program is usually a SCSI or low-level format option to format the hard drive at the SCSI level, not with a file system. It will wipe the drive completely clean. Tell me what adapter you have and I might be able to be more specific. Alan