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Author: der.hans
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Subject: help with new OS
Am 22. Mar, 2002 schwätzte Tom Achtenberg so:

> I have always had to use something like "Disk Manager from whoever made the
> hard drive to remove the Linux partitions. Fdisk sees them as virtual
> partitions and will not remove them.


If that's true, then boot with an install disk and dd over the front of the
disk.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=10

That should wipe it.

ciao,

der.hans
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