Newbie can't uninstall SuSe

[asil]

Hi everyone i have no experience with linux but wanted to give it a try, I installed it on an extra hard drive i had and tried to remove it using my windows xp disc. My PC doesn't even pick it up as another drive when i hook it up as a slave so i can't delete the files and when i try to reformat it using the windows disc it "Says inspecting system" and then the screen goes black. I'm assuming that windows can't read the file system and therefore can't do anything with it'.
How can i reformat the disc to re-install windows? Help?

[oz]

Welcome to the forums, asil!

To wipe your drive of all content, download the PartedMagic LiveCD (it's a very small download), burn it to CD, boot with it, and go to a terminal and issue the following command:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1

You'll need to replace /dev/sda with your actual device name such as /dev/hda.

Using the dd command as outlined above will write zeros to the entire drive giving you a totally fresh start.

If needed, you can use the fdisk -l command to determine your device name:

fdisk -l

Your Windows XP disk should be recognized after doing the above.

[asil]

Thanks Ozar downloaded the parted magic and worked great nice app for doing other things too,couldn't have done it without your help! Thanks again!!

[oz]

Indeed, PartedMagic is a great utility to keep on hand for working with Linux, and/or Windows partitions.

Glad you are up and running!