Formatting a Hard Drive with Linux

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Brian Callewaert	Oct 06, 2009, 12:07am EDT	Reply - Quote - Report Abuse
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Alright, so I have inherited a 60GB Maxtor hard drive that has Linux on it. I want to get rid of linux so that I can later install Windows. I do not, however, have the information to log into Linux on the new hard drive, and thus I do not really know how to format it. Any suggestions? Oh, and I also don't really know much about Linux, so I am a little bit limited there.

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k0rny	Oct 06, 2009, 12:38am EDT	Reply - Quote - Report Abuse
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>> Re: Formatting a Hard Drive with Linux http://www.killdisk.com/ http://www.mercygames.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- AMD X4 / GA-MA785GM-US2H / 4GB DDR2 / HD4670 / Windows 7
john albrich	Oct 06, 2009, 06:04am EDT	Reply - Quote - Report Abuse
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>> Re: Formatting a Hard Drive with Linux The also free MaxBlast utility from Maxtor/Seagate could also help. http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=Ma...04090aRCRD For managing disks/partitions afterwards, freeware PartitionLogic is pretty decent...but has some limitations (described on main webpage). For example, it can't format NTFS but it can manipulate NTFS partitions. http://partitionlogic.org.uk/about/index.html

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