On 3/11/2010 12:41 p.m., Ekhart GEORGI (last name last) wrote: > Hi Pen Windows contains a format command. For example: FORMAT A: formats a disk in drive A: The principle applies to all writable drives in or connected to the system. > > HOW DO I REMOVE THE OS AND TRASH? > Please explain this question. If you want to remove a partition, a program called DELPART can do that with one command (highly destructive). It removes the partition and everything in it. This really amounts to deleting a drive from your system. Even if it is still physically present, the hard drive would need to be partitioned and then formatted again before files could be put there. -- Regards, John Durham Fax/Phone 64 4 5286786 PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Inventor of multi-spectral fibreoptics. Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied. Quote: What I cannot create, I do not understand. (Richard Feynman)