Wiping your Hard Drive?

[superoxide]

Can you wipe your hard drive with KNOPPIX?
If so, do you do it as part of the install or can you do it within the program itself.
I have a messed up win xp on my laptop and I want to use this program to boot to my usb cd drive (cant boot with anyother cd)
and wipe the hard drive.
Is this possible and if so how do I do it?
Thanks

[ndb]

You asked
Can you wipe your hard drive with KNOPPIX? ...

When you install Linux on your PC you can specify the size of the partition. It sounds like you're just trashing XP entirely, and going with Linux.

A better choice would be installing Debian, which Knoppix is based on. Knoppix is designed as a live CD, and apparently tends to break down when being updated.

You can re-partition your HD with Qpart, but again I strongly suggest that you install Debian, if you're kissing Windows good-bye (Of course this would also involve kissing all documents, files, programs, etc. good-bye - it seems a drastic step to me)...