How do you take Linux off of a hard drive?

[Alan Dayley]

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