[linux-help] Re: erasing an IDE hard drive

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1024 count=1

then run fdisk


On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:31:03AM -0600, Michael Holmes wrote:
> I used the EZ drive with the western digital hard drive, Now I cannot get 
> linux to read the hard drive.  I have removed the ez drive from it, but linux 
> comes back with "no available resources"  or read error on hda boot sector.  
> Windows has no problem reading this.  I want to wipe the drive back to new 
> condition
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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