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How can I delete all the existing partitions on a HDD?
I tried using the following command:
/bin/dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=10
This does delete the partition tables but when I use fdisk to create new partitions, then I format those using mkfs.ntfs then the partitions are not seen by Windows.
Is there any other way to remove all existing paritions from a HDD?
syg00, you were right, I had to change the partition type to 7 using fdisk to make it seen by windows. The problem was not with the way I was removing all the partitions.
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