Write 0's to HD

[DarkVirus]

Is this a thread where we're gonna have to continue giving repeated or new answers until he stops asking? Btw, about the future rough situations, if you are capable or running a computer and having enough intelligence to ask questions on the forums, then you should be smart enough to take one of the... 5 or 6 ways Grok or I've posted to help you in those times. Or you could make it so that you get to a point with a future situation where you CAN use one of our suggestions. If not, I suggest bringing your system to a computer store or sending it back to the manufactuer for repair. Or in this case get a new HD sinse you can buy a new 80 or 120 gig WD drive from newegg for somwhere beteen 70 and 110 dollars.

[Kp]

This is one of those threads where the question is answered repeatedly, but the person asking doesn't seem to get it.

but $t0rm hasn't answered yet!  No thread is complete until $t0rm answers and everyone ignores him.

[Thing]

Kp is right.  $torm needs to stop playing with the Chinese and reply to this thread.

[lp_ql]

I think the answer he is looking for is this:

If you boot from a hal91 image (a very small linux distro on a disk), you could use dd and /dev/zero to write zero's to a disc.

The syntax for this would be: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd[a-z]
where [a-z] is the letter of the given hard-drive.
it will be a waste of time, but go ahead and play with it

-- lp_ql

[Mesiah / haiseM]

this post was complete some time ago, and i think some people mis-interpreted my ideals..

I had the floppy drive the whole time, i just wanted to KNOW if there was a way of going about it from a computer with no floppy, and no OS.

I have installed the floppy, and i am about to install windows server 2003, no linux crap for me, no offense.

Now i just need to find out what kind of boot disk to use..

[Grok]

CDROM!

[Yoni]

My motherboard has 2-3 pins missing (broken off?) in the floppy male connector on the motherboard.

If I connect a floppy drive to the board, I can read floppies fine, but an attempted write operation causes the system to freeze.

Needless to say, I have no problem with this

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

Uhh

Burn a bootable cdrom with knoppix on it and tell it to clear the partition table?

If not, magnets may get the desired effect.

[iago]

If not, magnets may get the desired effect.

That's a good point!