help me erase everything from second hard drive (done, thanks!)

[FrontlineWarrior]

I upgraded to a new hard drive, and I want to erase and unformat my old hard drive so I can sell it. I changed the old hard drive to a slave, and booted up with the new hard drive. I went to administrative tools, disk management, and was able to delete a Win2k partition (i was going a dual boot with 3 partition, the 3rd one for mp3's and stuff). But I was unable to delete the WinXP partition, and also the mp3 partition. The WinXP was labeled as a "page file", and the mp3 partition was "in use". How do I get rid of the remaining two partitions on the old hard drive?

 

[Latts]

Why cant you disconnect the new drive, leave the drive you want to erase as master, and boot to a floppy and Fdisk it?

 

[murphy55d]

can't you use a boot disk and then fdisk the old hard drive?

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

oh... sorry guys i wasn't aware that that was an option. 😱

 

[CStroman]

If your BIOS has a low-level format option, use it.

 

[Bovinicus]

A big magnet! Hehe.