starobrno1 Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I´m trying to install to an ide harddrive that I once had in my GA P35-DS3R mobo, it run really good there but I just can´t get it to work with my old Asus P4 P800 mobo. I might have had the GA mobo set for AHCI or Raid but I´m not sure, it probably would´nt have started with thoose settings but like I said I´m not sure. Seems I have somekind of broken hidden partition or something on the drive, it´s 160gig drive but in diskutility it says 149 gig. The Asus mobo works ok I have it running with another drive so that´s not the problem. I´ve tried them all from a couple of Kalys disks to 123 boot. In short words I´m looking for a freeware that will totally clean my harddrive and that will not take a couple of days to complete the task. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148234-need-to-totally-clean-my-harddrive-before-leo-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
starobrno1 Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 Hello anybody out there. Seems it´s impossible nobody throughout the entire world would´nt know about a program that totally cleans hardrives. Common guys please help me out here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148234-need-to-totally-clean-my-harddrive-before-leo-install/#findComment-1050834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomnimac Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Dude 160GB IS only around 149GB when you factor in 1GB = 1000000 MBs. So yeh seems fine the way it is. Just boot into the disk utlity and do a partition and then erase and choose options and sleect your security level. Voila! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148234-need-to-totally-clean-my-harddrive-before-leo-install/#findComment-1051478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
starobrno1 Posted January 22, 2009 Author Share Posted January 22, 2009 Thanks for the reply but sorry I already tried that and it did´nt work that´s why I´m asking. I´ve never before seen diskutility saying anything about files still being there after a erase or format but in this case it does. I can install kalys leo 10.5.1 all the way through but when it boots up to complete the installation it does´nt work and if I hit F8 darvin says there´s two partitions. One is 0,1 and the other is 0,2 with my hardrives name. If I go for 0,1 it asks if I want to start foreing os if I go for 0,2 I end up in an endless boot loop nomatter what I do. The case is I already have a drive with Kaly on that´s working on this computer so it´s strange for sure. I´ve had this 160 gig drive on the shelf for a couple of months only and last time I used it it worked and that it broke just laying there yeah sure it can happend but .... I even deleted partitions and formated it with Fdisk with no luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148234-need-to-totally-clean-my-harddrive-before-leo-install/#findComment-1051509 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Start terminal and type sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdiskX bs=1M count=10 This should zero out the first 10 MB of the HDD and make it appear totally clean to any application. This will remove all partition, bootsector, MBR, etc information. NOTE X=Drive number. Select the drive in Disk Utility, Right-Click->Information. You will see something like -> Disk Identifier : disk0 The number after disk is what you need to put instead of X Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148234-need-to-totally-clean-my-harddrive-before-leo-install/#findComment-1051512 Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomnimac Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 If you chose GUID partition scheme then this is why you're seeing 2 partitions upon boot menu. GUID creates 2 prtition one for booting and the other for osx, or something like that. Anyway after a format/erase It still tells me the drive has 50mb or so used and a couple of files on it, this is perfectly normal imo. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148234-need-to-totally-clean-my-harddrive-before-leo-install/#findComment-1051514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
starobrno1 Posted January 22, 2009 Author Share Posted January 22, 2009 OK thanks guys, good info I´ll try it if this http://advosys.ca/viewpoints/2006/07/hard-...e-secure-erase/ does´nt work. I´ve had it formated as guid and as mbr resulting with the same strange behaviour. I´ve been working with this for about a week now so I might have forgot but if I`m not wrong formatting the drive from the Win XP dvd it said 159 gig. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148234-need-to-totally-clean-my-harddrive-before-leo-install/#findComment-1051611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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