Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:44:10 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Bnw CmpRpr <bnwcmprpr@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removing FreeBSD Message-ID: <47A3BCDA.6020707@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <521061.32857.qm@web45911.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <521061.32857.qm@web45911.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bnw CmpRpr wrote: > Hi. I recently purchased a HDD from a man that runs a data center, and on this HDD is FreeBSD. My problem is I want it off, and for some ungodly reason, it keeps coming back. I cant format the drive with Windows, and I cant load it as a slave to format, either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks > - > M White > Black and White Computer Repair > > The following assumes the drive is /dev/ad0 (the OS name for it) and it is modern enough to not get confused by a low level format... boot in single user mode (item 4 on the menu) and at the command line do: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=1 This will clear the MBR partition table and make the machine think it is a brand new drive. - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Tool Developers Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com "Free software != Free beer" Blog: http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/index.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHo7zaQi2hk2LEXBARAsdxAKDPTkTXZ/s1EaFp5AIybNBSSdufKwCgtG79 tbzQNJIAPIJ0CZLidKtZP4s= =OlhM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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