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I have an External usb harddrive that has linux suse 10.1 gnome on it but i want to reformat it. I dont have any grub to boot it on my ...
  1. 11-20-2007 #1
    Soulbishop
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    External Hard Drive

    I have an External usb harddrive that has linux suse 10.1 gnome on it but i want to reformat it. I dont have any grub to boot it on my laptop so i was wondering is there a way to reformat the external harddrive without actually booting up linux. BTW it wont show up under the my computer when attached.
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    HROAdmin26
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    If you don't have an OS on a harddrive to boot up, use a liveCD Linux distro like Backtrack.

    Attach the drive and boot up Backtrack from the CD - if the external drive is not detected, it's likely dead. If it is seen, you can format/wipe it. Check out the shred command.
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