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Can't format HDD

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Halogen1212

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Hi there! I'm trying to format my Seagate 40GB hard drive (I have two hard drives, the seagate is set to slave). I have it partitioned into two partitions; one for linux and the other for storage. However, now I don't really need linux anymore and I want to turn the whole drive into one partition. When I try to use PartitionMagic 7.0 it says "No support for file system" when attempting to format the linux partition. Any ideas? Any way I could just wipe the whole hard drive?

Thanks in advance!

 

Just wipe the whole drive out.

I tend to find that IBM's "ZAP" utility works quite nicely - wipes out MBR/FAT and you stick around with a clean HD. As far as experience goes, it does work on non-IBM HD's too. Haven't got a Seagate to check it though.

You can download the ZAP-utility HERE 😀.

- Shathal.

P.S.: You'll have to F-disk it afresh after wiping it clean with Zap. Also, ZAP is a DOS-app.
 
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