How to erase Linux?

[MJang]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 13:40 +0100, Patrick Gelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I love Linux but I'll get a new laptop and I need to erase Linux from the
> original PC. What I wand is to erase all Linux paritions and gibe Windows
> all the drive. How to do?

If there's personal info on the drive, you may also want to "shred" it,
something you can do from a Live CD. (I see Ubuntu has it, but I always
do it from Knoppix.)

http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/2006/s1706/51s06/51s06.asp&guid=

The "shred" command overwrites your drive a bunch of times (25, by
default), and I'm guessing would protect your data from everyone but
government intelligence agencies such as the NSA.

Thanks,
Mike