Hi,
I am going to remove my current OS on my old PC.
I used this method before:
I booted the old PC from Hirens cd. Then I used one of their partition managers to delete the partition[s]. It then said the whole hdd was unformatted. Then I installed a new OS.

Is this the best method or can this lead to errors on the hdd?

Originally Posted by Falcon79

Hi,
I am going to remove my current OS on my old PC.
I used this method before:
I booted the old PC from Hirens cd. Then I used one of their partition managers to delete the partition[s]. It then said the whole hdd was unformatted. Then I installed a new OS.

Is this the best method or can this lead to errors on the hdd?

Could you expand on "new OS" (e.g. windows, mac, linux)
This is an ok methord, i would just reformat its a lot easyer

new os - LINUX

how exactly do you format?

Your methord is fine you will of formated before you installed, but you can boot to msdos and type format [Drive Letter]:


Thanks,
Seywar

Darik's Boot and Nuke will make HD like new. Its slow but good. I use it on all my reinstalls of OS.

Originally Posted by twobits

Darik's Boot and Nuke will make HD like new. Its slow but good. I use it on all my reinstalls of OS.

If you want to LLF then you can also use Active@ Kill Disk and can be downloaded here: http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm