Development Completely wiping a Hard Disk

Hey,

I am trying to install windows on a Hard Disk using a Development Board at work.

The Disk I am trying to install to has two odd partitions (I think they're related to the windows boot, flagged as "boot" and "msft-reserved") which I am trying to get rid of, since whenever I plug the drive into the Dev Board it just freezes up..

The Rest of the drive is all unallocated space so I am guessing that that must be what is causing it.

Does anyone know any way for me to get rid of these partitions so I can just have a blank, unformatted drive?

 

Damn tapatalk, didn't do all my post, I'll do it on the computer in few

 

disk wipe?

 

fdisk in linux.. p, d

should be able to get them all whatever they are formatted

 

I got it sorted, thanks guys.

None of the partition managers I used would let me just delete the partitions, probably because of the flags...

I managed to reset the partition tables and get it working.

Thanks again!

 

For future reference, you can do the same as in this blog, but instead of USB drive you use the HDD
Linky

 

GParted

Gparted comes on all ubuntu discs and many other distro's i'd imagine. Easiest way to do it imo.