On Sunday 01 February 2004 1:05 pm, wmeler wrote:
Is there a way to just ERASE the hard drive completely (and allow SuSE to repartition it, etc.) so that when I insert the installation CDs everything will start from scratch? (Right now, when I try to install, things do not go well at all. It complains about some shared objects and gives a "segmentation fault.")
If you really, really want to erase the hard drive, I recommend using the floppy-based PowerMax utility you can download from maxtor.com. Among other things, it can do a low-level reformat of the drive, and since the software is coming from the people who make the drives, you can pretty well trust it to do a good job. PowerMax also has some excellent nondesctructive diagnostics. It's a program I recommend at every opportunity -- and it's free! Paul Abrahams