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renovation
12-11-2005, 06:19 AM
What commands to do it. or how to f-disk a drive with this crap on it ?
I want to swap the OS to Windows and i'm not sure where i'm going wrong. help please! :bawl:

mechmike0034
12-11-2005, 10:19 AM
DBAN: http://dban.sourceforge.net/features.html

Download the .iso and burn a bootable CD, or there is a floppy version.

You can then fdisk and format with your Windows disk, or a W98 boot disk from Bootdisk.com.

Here's another .iso with DBAN and some other cool and useful tools:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Jeffbx
12-12-2005, 06:02 AM
With any LINUX install on an x86 system, you may have to do a 'format /MBR' to remove the LINUX boot record from the hd before you can boot Windows properly.

mechmike0034
12-12-2005, 08:09 AM
With any LINUX install on an x86 system, you may have to do a 'format /MBR' to remove the LINUX boot record from the hd before you can boot Windows properly.

Forgot about that, thanks...