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"Wiping my Hard drive, Help please....."

I want to wipe the C drive on one of my old computers. Can anybody tell me how to do this? Thanks.

Darkreaper

Yeah, you need to ghet your BIOS to read the CD-ROM. The order should be:

Floppy
CD-ROM
Hard disks (hda specifically)

But, the Windows disk MUST contain a formatter?!

Isn't this where that catch 22 arises, that you've got a machine that's got nice squeaky clean hard drives, and therefore won't boot, let alone read the CD in the first place? Or is a Win CD bootable? In which case, I'd need to change my BIOS settings, cos it only looks on the A drive and the hard drives.

But maybe you can get the machine up and running from the Windows Startup disk that you created (didnt you?) and then you can use the CD once you've got the DOS prompt.

It comes on CDs doesn't it? That's how you install Win98 and Linux Mandrake/Debian.

Loading kernels off a floppy takes forever, and even Windows needs a kernel. Use the CD, my friend!

Switch off the machine. Insert the Windows floppy disk, then boot up. When the computer checks for an A:\ drive, it will also read the disk in it.

Then follow the on-screen instructions.

Thanks for the Help.

Errr, just one more question. Once i've uninstalled Windows, how do i install it?

Oh, cheers.

Which isn't biased. At all. Of course.

Well, it was remarkably good, actually..

Aww... I was just joking! You know I was!

On the subject of Win vs Lin, I wasn't going to write a straight out-and-out comparison, but I am going to do a questionnaire that is based around OSs. It's to gauge your experience with computers.

Rob, drop it, you're a zealot and it's just annoying now. If people ask, tell them, don't just shout about linux to us lot - it has several large flaws and windows does beat in various areas.

And if you consider starting windows VS linux you will SO get flamed..

Aye!