How to format harddrive using Mint Live CD

sanaxe1 · 20 Jul 2011 at 13:00

Hello , my macbook is playing up and wont let me boot. So i was wondering if its possible to use my Linux Mint 10 Live CD to format the hard drive. If so how do i do it?

Thanks.

inSilica · 20 Jul 2011 at 13:24

not sure, would be interesting to find out... can you boot it? hmmmm but then again linux mint won't support Mac partitions, so I don't think so. why not just use your OS-X or Mac OS something... disk to get it going? ... or give them a call, your local mac that is, they might fix it for you for cheap

sanaxe1 · 20 Jul 2011 at 13:29

It won't boot using the mac osx disks. But it does with linux mint.

sanaxe1 · 20 Jul 2011 at 14:05

Sorted it , used the windows 7 disk to format it.

PermaBanned · 20 Jul 2011 at 16:44

Use a program called gParted... amazed it didn't come up on a Google really, it's installed on the LiveCD by default but not after it's installed since they don't want you formatting the drive it's on. Still, it's an amazing open source app, by far and away the best and fastest hard drive management tool.

BigglesPiP · 20 Jul 2011 at 19:07

while [ 1 ]; do dd if=/dev/frandom of=/dev/sda bs=1M; echo -n "."; done

Let a few dots appear then change the temperature of the drive. Give it some hot, normal and cold cycles. This will put your "gentleman's special interest literature" beyond the reach of any technology.

Edit: Have I misunderstood the question?