cleaning off unix/linux????

[Gerard Seibert]

Gary Kline wrote:

> 	Gang,
> 
> 	A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K
> 	on the drive) may be entirely good.  I am trying to avoid having
> 	to buy a DOS/Win platform.  I've had both W2K and FBSD or Ubuntu
> 	on this one machine.  For various reasons I need one DOS machine.
> 	(Already have 7 or 8 *Nix servers.)   The Windows 2000 
> 	"Professional" CD find some other non-Windows partition and 
> 	press "D" and "L" as I will, the installation CD keeps
> 	complaining.  Eventually I have to hit F3 to quit.  So, nutshell,
> 	is there any way I can completely remove any trace of *Nix?
> 	-----I remember having a DOS floppy and typing an undocumented
> 	MBR \ command that wiped the drive clean of this boot record,
> 	but this was [mumble] years ago.
> 
> 	thanks for any tips, y'all,
> 
> 	gary

Personally, I keep a copy of FreeDOS <http://www.freedos.com> available
for just such an occasion. I am sure there are easier ways though.

-- 
Gerard Seibert
gerard at seibercom.net