How To Wipe A Drive Containing Linux Mint. NO DUAL BOOT

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I Want to Delete everything similar to when I bought my drive and get rid of LINUX MINT!!! No Dual boot just linux on it. I bought windows recently (have the iso) and i need to delete linux from my hd. I would like a simple command line to delete everything
 
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sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/ that is basically the linux equivalent of deleting C:/

Really though Mint shouldn't prevent you from just deleting the partions and formatting in the windows installer so that is really unnecessary.
in linux? you can not be using the same drive to load linux as you want to erase. if you're booting off a livecd or liveusb you could use gparted http://gparted.org/display-doc.php%3Fname%3Dhelp-manual

i'm not a linux user so cant guide you with a step by step but i've done it before (with mint livecd) and its not hard.

if installing windows you can do the same from the windows installer before you install providing you're using a compatible hdd formatting option when you had mint installed.
 
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/ that is basically the linux equivalent of deleting C:/

Really though Mint shouldn't prevent you from just deleting the partions and formatting in the windows installer so that is really unnecessary.
 
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