You connect them to some PC and delete the partitions off those drives. Now they are clean.
You can't format without a partition to format and since that is done when you install the OS, I don't need to write more.
Bob
I have 2 laptops running Win 7 and another running Linux.
I have three spare HDD's that I would like to completely reformat and clean so that I can install Win98 and XP on them for my old Dell tower.
Help, please.
Thanks.
Richard.

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