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#8686: Format hard disk
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Written by ajparag the 16 May 08 at 17:50.
Category: Others.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Ubuntu installation disk i.e. LiveCD must have format hard disk option in the main menu to format HD completely. The installation process formats hard disk only if ubuntu is being installed in the system. So, if anyone wants to completely empty his/her hard disk it is not possible with ubuntu. Also, for software to be successful its rejection should be as easy as its acceptance!
wot is ur opinion?!!
Wot if u want to format the OS itself...u don't get any help on this from gparted!!!!
there should be some way of doing it.
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oblique63 wrote on the 16 May 08 at 19:54
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sudo apt-get install gparted ???
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steve196 wrote on the 16 May 08 at 21:37
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The format command exists in the bash
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Primož Papič wrote on the 16 May 08 at 21:52
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Yes use Gparted, even better get an Live CD of it...
///////Or experiment with rm -rf please DON'T do it if you don't know what you're doing I'm just enjoy bringing it up////
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ajparag wrote on the 19 Jun 08 at 09:41
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u don't get my point. What if you want to remove ubuntu from hard disk completely. how is that possible? obviously, we will have to format the disk....but, there shld be a way to do it. we can't do it using LiveCD till yet or can we do it frm windows bootable disc....in short, LiveCD shld have the option to format the OS drive
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ajparag wrote on the 19 Jun 08 at 09:43
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u don't get my point. What if you want to remove ubuntu from hard disk completely. how is that possible? obviously, we will have to format the disk....but, there shld be a way to do it. we can't do it using LiveCD till yet or can we do it frm windows bootable disc....in short, LiveCD shld have the option to format the OS drive
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Primož Papič wrote on the 19 Jun 08 at 10:52
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As I was saying Gparted Live CD, you put it in it starts and you then just choose what do you want to format.
You can format a OS partition or the whole disk
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mister wrote on the 19 Jun 08 at 14:42
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You don't just format a hard disk, you format to later install an operating system. The operating system to be installed should be the one to do the formatting.
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ajparag wrote on the 29 Aug 08 at 03:51
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I SUPPORT THAT!
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ajparag wrote on the 29 Aug 08 at 03:51
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thank you 'mister' for getting my point.
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borsook wrote on the 29 Aug 08 at 08:07
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If you want to remove Ubuntu completely formatting the partition may not be enough, you still be left with Grub...
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