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Problem Partitioning

I downloaded the trial version to test this package out. I'm installing over a Fedora Core 3 installation (my test box). When it tries to create the partions, it gives a result of FAILED. Anything I can do besides a drestuctive format?

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0 BarryG over 20 years ago

You NEED to do a destructive format (or at least delete all the partitions).

In linux,
cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda

for a few seconds will do the trick.

THIS WILL DESTROY ALL PARTITIONS ON THE FIRST HARD DRIVE.

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0 Xeno over 20 years ago in reply to BarryG

Or just make a low level format (write 000000 to the whole harddisk). Most harddisk vendors provide a tool to do so on their homepage.

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