Hibernation partition

[Joseph Kubik]

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd[usb_device] count=4 bs=512

Should clean the partition table completely.
-Joseph-

On 12/7/05, Anthony Alex <magalex-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I yanked out a hard disk drive from an old notebook
> and put in a USB external drive enclosure to use it
> obviously as a external drive.
>
> All is well, except that the drive has a hibernation
> partition which I just can't seem to reclaim. At least
> fdisk cannot see it.
>
> Under windowsXP the drive shows 100mb (hibernation)
> and the rest of drive space as unallocated.
>
> Any ideas how I can make the whole drive available.
>
> tia,
> MA
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