[NTLUG:Discuss] Formatting hard drive

[Alton R. Pouncey, II]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 12:58, MadHat wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 12:41, Philip Stetz wrote:
> > I was in the middle of doing a clean install of RH 9
> > and had a huge change of heart ... deciding to dump RH
> > in favor of Suse.  I basically got as far as deleting
> > the partitions and starting to install grub.  No big
> > deal, I have backed up everything anyways.
> > 
> > So now I would like to wipe everything off my hard
> > drive (including MBR) and start over from scratch. 
> > Anyone know of any good tools I can use to create a
> > boot floppy and reformat my drive with?
> 
> It is part of the install process.  Why not just use the options
> included with the install to do it?

I concur with MadHat here.  However, if you really want to wipe the
drive as a separate step, there is a program called Autoclave that will
do it.  I use Autoclave to wipe my drives before I give a computer
away.  It fits on a floppy.

Alton Pouncey