Since you have not gotten very far, and WANT to remove
all data and software on the harddrive,  I would say get and
use one the following.
Zap and Wipe are at:
http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm
(Link as originally posted to another list by Andy Medina.)
Zap will erase the first 128 clusters of the drive and remove
anything that will interfere with a proper FDISK AND Format.

                          Rick Glazier

From: "Colin Barclay" <[log in to unmask]>
> I am presently trying to reinstall Windows 95. The hard drive was formatted prior to this.

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