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

["Daniel Nowlin" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

It sounds like he used a dos boot disk with a program called 'HDKILL'.  It
is what old NT admins used to get rid NT on boxes.  DELPART is another dos
program that is good for this to just delete partitions.  You should have
been able to correct your problem by rerunning LILO but I am not sure.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Napier" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
To: <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 1:33 PM
Subject: RE: [MLUG] Partition that won't die.


> 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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