so i searched the forums a little bit for the answer i was looking for to no avail so now i start a new post. a little background, not because it will help in solving my problem but just because i think its kind of funny. so i picked up a 30 gig western digital hard drive at the swap meet/flea market for a dollar this weekend because i need some extra space. and you have to admit that a buck for 30 gigs isnt a bad deal. so i put the thing in my computer, and boot up knoppix, seeing as this would be the best way to look at what might be on it without unleashing the plague onto my windows partition (i have a dual boot winblows XPee, Kubuntu system) and to no suprise the thing was loaded with porn, proabably illeagal music, and hundreds of what are supposedly ziped up keygens to random windows programs. it was fun going thru someone elses herpies infested hard drive for a dollar and that alone was worth what i paid for it but now it is time to wipe it clean and make room for my own pirated music and random tidbits. now of course the problem im having is that knoppix makes everything read only. if someone could point me in the direction of maybe a tutorial on how to use knoppix to mount and format this new hard drive i would greatly appreciate it. maybe even post something up in here explaining how to do it. im still rather new to linux, i know you can use fdisk to do such a task but knowing i can use fdisk and knowing how to set it up so i can use fdisk is two different things. any help would be greatly appreciated.