Hi all,

I had a laptop with a partition for windows and linux, but I decided to thorw away the partition for windows and add it to the linux partition. So i read this was possible with gparted, burned a cd, deleted the windows partition and resized the linux partition to the full space.
GParted did it work, but when it was nearly finished it said it failed. When I rebooted the laptop, it gave me hard disk errors of the type: DRDY ERR UNC.
I couldn't solve the problem, so I wanted to clear the whole disk. I have been trying to accomplish this with the Debian boot CD, but it says it can't do that anymore. How to completely erase my hard disk?

Regards, Geert

As far as the error, I would run fsck on your hard drive and try to find out what exactly is up with it, and try to automatically fix it with fsck/e2fsck.

As far as formatting the hard drive, you could burn the gparted ISO to disc and use that to format your hard drive. I have a gparted disc with me at all times just in case...

Hope that helps!

Cheers,

Josh

This error indicates a hardware failure. Test your harddisk with the diagnosis application from its manufacturer before going any further.