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How to format screwed-up hard drive and reinstall OS.

How to format screwed-up hard drive and reinstall OS.

2005-11-16       - By Bobby Heid

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I'm sure there is a way to do this with one of the LiveCD Linux distros such
as Knoppix, but I do not know the method.  But you can get a Windows 98 boot
disk and boot off of it.  Then you can run Fdisk and/or Format from that
floppy.

Bobby

-- --Original Message-- --
From: shrike-list-bounces@(protected) [mailto:shrike-list-bounces@(protected)]
On Behalf Of peter wu
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 5:28 PM
To: akonstam@(protected); Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)
Subject: Re: How to format screwed-up hard drive and reinstall OS.


<snip>

I still can't find the right way to format the hard drive. My computer just
refuses to let me do that... :(

Thanks in advace for your help.

--peter


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