A better hd format

[ndogg]

I have been trying to figure out a way to format my hard drives without deleting their partition types. I tried dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1, but that deletes the partition type as well, so that didn't help. Does anyone know of a better way? <p>REH<br><a href=mailto:hawkdogg@crosswinds.net>hawkdogg@crosswinds.net</a><br><a href=

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[robherc]

Yep.....make an image of your boot sector; format the drive; then copy the image back to your boot sector & the OS will be none the wiser (at least not until it tries to read the drive <p>-Robherc<br><a href=mailto:robherc@netzero.net>robherc@netzero.net</a><br><a href= shared.freeservers.com/searchmaster.html>SearchMaster Interface...11-in-1</a><br>Wanting to learn Assembler; please e-mail me any tutorials or links for it that are useful to you