[CentOS] how to reformat a partition to ntfs?

[John Doe]

From: "Brunner, Brian T." <BBrunner at gai-tronics.com>

> > >> 1) Insert CentOS install CD until you come to the first  screen.
> > >> 2) Open virtual console :  Alt+F2
> > >> 3) # shred -vzn 65536 /dev/hda
> > >> 4) Watch messages scroll by. Wait until it's finished  (important), 
> > >> then post here to tell us the results.
> > > Mean!
> > And particularly useful to all the  other people who follow 
> > instructions to use google search to find  procedures.
> Per shread's manual pages, this tends to fail for ext3 and  other
> log/journaled file systems.
> Step 3 should instead be "badblocks -f  -p 10 -w /dev/hda".  The drive is
> now ready for the new system to be  installed.
> mkfs.ntfs /dev/dha should suffice as well, and is much  quicker.

Maybe a quick
 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
before, to clean the MBR...?

JD