Re: [debian-knoppix] help with format
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:02:12AM -0500, Ruzzo, Bob wrote:
> I have a new HDD but it had WINXP on it. I have formatted it and now the
> disk is clean. BUT it is an NTFS drive! I tried to do 'KNX-HDINSTALL'
> but no luck. I am assuming because it is an NTFS file system. Is there
> anything I can do to revert that drive to a FAT16/32? Please help!
Did you also overwrite the partition table and restart Knoppix?
dd if =/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx bs=1024k count=100
usually does the trick
Steffen
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