Hi folks,

I have been playing around on a HD. Now I need to reset it as default setting. Please advise how to make it.

The HD is empty.

TIA

B.R.
satimis

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who is confused by this question. You have a drive that you had been using, you've formatted it to make it "empty," and now you want to do what with it?

Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

How to reset hard drive to default!Use
active killdisk at below site.

http://www.killdisk.com/

Are you possibly talking about the jumpers?

Hi folks,

Tks for your response.

Nothing in connection with jumpers.

I have been playing around on an empty HD with fdisk, incidently making it as Sun' label, IIRC. Then I ran;

# dd if=/dev/zero of=dev/hda bs=512 count=1

to reset it.

Afterwards I have been trying a whole creating Volume Group and Logical Volumes on this HD without result. I hesitate whether it is the problem of my reset. Therefore I'm finding a way to reset the HD to default setting (factory setting).

Tks

B.R.
satimis

Try response #2

I think you have undertaken building a car when you could have walked 10 feet to your destination.

nice reply GX1 Man!!!this guy is confused...

the best re-set way is to delete all partition and create new partition, then
format them in windows disk management!

Hi folks,

Tks for your advice/suggestion.

The HD had no problem. It was my wrong suspecion.

Ran

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/your_hd bs=512 count=1

is same as running the software on;
http://www.killdisk.com/

B.R.
satimis