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Posted: Aug. 04 2004,15:56 |
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OK, since noone has posted a reply, I'll share what research I have come up with...not sure if it is correct or not. 
This is what I did:
1) FDISK the drive using a DOS boot floppy, Windoze Staryp Floppy or, better yet, TOMSRTBT
2) Boot to DSL "live" by booting the PC from the CD-ROM (normally)
3) Enter a terminal, and from the command line run:
sudo su
then
mkfs -V fs -c -v /dev/hda1 (Change drive designation as
needed)
The last command will "make" a file system, and check the drive for "bad blocks" while it is at it (best when using and older used drive)
Alternately, one could use a "drive wiping" floppy before fdisk-ing, such as the ones I have seen mentioned here...
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