formatting hdd

[gibz117]

i am currently running vista and ubuntu 9.04 on one 160g hdd. i want to completly wipe the hdd down to nothing and reinstall ubuntu. how do i do that. also, i have a 120g 3.5" hdd that is wiped and im trying to install ubuntu 9.04 on it as well. it starts up fine, then goes blank. nothing else. anyone know why.

[eXcalibur]

if i'm not mistaken, when you try to install window(or any other os, just my assumption, b/c i only used window before), it will ask you to decide which drive to install the os on, or weather if you want to create a partition or now, during those steps, you can choose to delete all data on a drive

[gibz117]

to my knowledge you cant reformat the drive when installing ubuntu like you can with windows

[vulcanman09]

yes you can
ubuntu will show the hard drive space before you reformat
it will show the hard drive space after you reformat