RE: [MLUG] Partition that won't die.

["Sam Napier" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

You may want to acquire and run the HDD manufacturer low level format
and diagnostics utilities from a web site if available. Just to err on
the side of caution.

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: EMAIL:PROTECTED
[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dooley, Ryan
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 9:38 AM
To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
Subject: RE: [MLUG] Partition that won't die.

dos boot floppy with "fdisk /mbr" or "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/bootdrive
bs=446 count=1" should do the trick in wipping out LILO.  If you have a
copy of the original boot sector before Linux, and can also use dd to
restore it.

Cheers,
	Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Ross, Matt [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 9:32 AM
To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
Subject: [MLUG] Partition that won't die.


I tried to uninstall linux and put NT on a box (I know, sacrilege).  I
needed to connect to MSSQL through ODBC, and our admin said the only way
on
a linux box was costly.  When I went to fdisk and reformat the box, it
said
I had 4110mb disk space to allocate - the size of the root partition of
the
SuSE install, missing the ~250mb that included the boot sector.  I did
the
fdisk, installed NT, and rebooted.  LILO came up, no option for NT..
SuSE
booted up and kernel panicked due to the partition changes.  What is the
proper way to solve this?

FYI: we did end the problem by using a DOS boot disk, and a utility that
wrote 0's to the whole drive.  Not sure if this was the right way to do
it,
and I didn't catch the name of the utility.
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