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01-23-2012, 12:32 AM
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Best way to remove grub from external hard drive?
My Acer netbook burned and died so I removed the Seagate 500GB hard drive which had a Linux Mint/Winows 7 dual boot setup.
I now have this drive temporarily housed in an external USB enclosure. With the prices of hard drives going through the roof I am going to take the opportunity to put this drive on ebay but I don't want to sell it with the grub bootloader. I know how to wipe grub if it's the primary drive but I'm not so sure about doing it to an external drive. Anyone know? TIA.
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01-23-2012, 10:57 AM
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'Low level format' it using the manufacturer's tools.
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01-23-2012, 11:01 AM
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01-23-2012, 11:05 AM
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Yes, the DOS version. It should have a function to do a zero wipe.
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01-23-2012, 11:06 AM
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01-23-2012, 11:18 AM
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I'd rather boot into an enviroment that is doing one thing only. I don't trust Windows as far as I can throw it and I can throw pretty far.
Now, if you just hook up the drive via USB, you can prolly go into the Windows command line, running it as administrator of course, and do a fixmbr X:. That should effectively get rid of the boot loader. You can then use Disk Management in Windows to delete the partitions in that drive and create new ones or just leave the whole thing as unpartitioned space. |
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01-24-2012, 08:35 AM
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03-23-2012, 07:43 PM
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If I leave it connected and turn PC on, my BIOS hangs, but if I first disconnect it, turn on PC and wait until POST messages are gone while it is booting from that Seatools CD, then I re-connect my USB disk, it will see it (eventually) when it start scanning for appropriate HDD's. But I have an older board, Intel D865PERL. |
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