I have a few drives I pulled out of my array and want to clear them before selling. 

 

When I use delete partition I just get a failed message.

 

 

Any way around this?

 

I've tried using fdisk /dev/.sdb and doesn't seem to work either.

 

Edited October 26, 20205 yr by Fiala06

Please post output of:

fdisk -l /dev/sdb

 

2 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Please post output of:

fdisk -l /dev/sdb

 

There's no partition, but try this:

wipefs -a /dev/sdb1

then

wipefs - a /dev/sdb

them try to format.

As soon as I did 

 

wipefs -a /dev/sdb1

 

The preclear button showed up and is now erasing. Thank you! 

On 10/26/2020 at 11:11 AM, JorgeB said:

There's no partition, but try this:

wipefs -a /dev/sdb1

then

wipefs - a /dev/sdb

them try to format.

this helped me... 

 

thanks!

This is what I was looking for, helped me out as well. Thanks!

Helped me as well.