On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:17:06 +0100, John Richard Smith <bagsofchoice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ah, good man, that's what I wanted, I knew linux would have an answer, > just a question of finding it. Is that a Linux CD1 , like mandrake CD1 > ---> to rescue , if so will I need to mount the drive, No. You don't need access to any filesystem on the drive so you don't need to mount it. All you want to do is clobber the first sector on it. -- G. Stewart -- gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx -- gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux user #284683 (Slackware 9.0, Linux 2.6.5) -------------------------------------------------------------- If money doesn't grow on trees then why do banks have branches? To unsubcribe send e-mail with the word unsubscribe in the body to: Linux-Anyway-Request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?body=unsubscribe