Trying to format my HDDs...

squareyes squareyes at optusnet.com.au
Wed Jan 12 23:40:45 UTC 2005



Hi,
 you could try maxblast, will fit on a floppy Disk.
Used it the other day to do what fdisk in windows would not.


http://www.techspot.com/drivers/index/file/information/1413

Take Care
Winton


On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 21:19 +0000, Ben Hodgson wrote:
> Hey,
>  
> I apologise in advance for this being a little off topic - but I
> figured that if anyone would know, it would be you guys! I have a
> bunch of PCs that I want to get rid of and I am looking to see if
> there is a Linux distro (or anything I can just boot from CD) whose
> sole purpose is to format hard drives? Basically, I just want to have
> a CD that I can boot from that loads a utility into the RAM to fully
> format a hard disk.
>  
> Does such a thing exist?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
>  
> Ben Hodgson
>  
> 
> 
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