To give your current HDD a
thorough purging, then here is one way to do it:
(1) generate a 3.5 inch boot disk in a WIN 98SE environment;
(2) load whatever Norton SystemWorks or Ghost 2003 CD you have onhand and use the SEARCH feature to look for GDISK.EXE (it is in
D:
\SUPPORT\GHOST on my PC); and
(3) mount the floppy boot disk and use the SEND TO feature to copy GDISK.EXE over to the A: drive.
When you are
ABSOLUTELY
sure that you have a secure image to restore from, start off by booting up with the modified floppy and repeatedly using the following command in iterative fashion:
GDISK n /STATUS
to ascertain which Arabic numeral (
'1'
through
'3'
in my world, with
'3'
being the correct HDD) represents the target HDD for renovation. Next, use the command:
GDISK 3 /DISKWIPE
to totally obliterate the entire disk, partitions, partition table, MBR, and all used or unused space on the external HDD.
Then, boot up with manufacturer-provided CD software such as 'Seagate DiscWizard for Windows' to target and initialize the
"scrubbed" disk in preparation for whatever subsequent restoration procedures you deem fit. Admittedly, there are probably well over a dozen approaches to arriving at this point - this just happens to be one that works great for me..."
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