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Old 03-30-2006, 11:00 AM   #16
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Sorry made a mistake thought you said packard bell when you said hewlett packard, so I deleted the rubbish I wrote.

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Old 03-30-2006, 04:20 PM   #17
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I tried the dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda with a ubuntu live cd...

I don't have permision...

Now what?
 
Old 03-30-2006, 04:54 PM   #18
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You have to sudo with Ubuntu. There is no root user.
 
Old 03-30-2006, 07:40 PM   #19
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I did try sudo, and that didn't work...
It's ok cause I downloaded killdisk and that did work...


Thanks guys......

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