Re: Partition problem

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 13,  9:02am, Rick Hayner wrote:
> Subject: Re: Partition problem
>
>
> Hello Adam and all.
>
> go to ftp.wdc.com, and in the hdutil directory, you'll find a program
> called wddiag.exe, or something like that.  It will write zeros to an
> entire ide hard drive, and it automatically determines the size and
> everything else from the drive itself.  They used to have a program
> called wdclear.exe, which will do the same thing.  YOu can simply type
> wdclear -t3, and the boot sector and partition table is totally gone.
> It works every time for me.  If any of you want these programs, I have
> both of them, and western digital doesn't care who has them, because
> I've called and asked them.  send me a private email, and I'll send
> them as an attachment.
>
Very interesting.  I'd love to find a program than can to "automatic"
paritioning.  Tell it in a script to attack a harddrive, delete all the
paritions, and create 1 64Mb Swap partition, and a second parition the size of
the rest of the drive.  I've tried doing cat file | fdisk, but haven't had much
luck as some values vary depending on the hard drive.