Re: Disk Problem

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Many thanks to Chris.  Tomsrtbt worked like a first class spell, and fixed 
the disk.  This saved me the work of changing the computer or the hard 
drive in order to get a clean system.

I remind Chris that he sent me a tomsrtbt disk a couple of years ago, and I 
still had it.  I did however download and make a disk on my Mandrake 9.0 
system.  If I can do it, then anyone of you can do it.

Tom Droege

At 09:36 PM 3/15/03 -0800, you wrote:

>Tom,
>
>If you want to completely wipe it clean get a single floppy Linux
>distribution and use "dd" to write zeroes to the disk.  "dd" can
>write to the raw device ignoring conventions like patition tables
>and fiile systems.