Will wiping the HD of a computer that uses UEFI brick the box?

theironknuckle · 2012-12-14 05:01:45

i've just picked up a cheap eee pc netbook and want to nuke the HD and start installing arch from scratch, but apparently it uses some newfangled UEFI booting scheme rather than the traditional MBR style. Will wiping the HD completely brick the netbook?

(I've tried to rtfm but it's a massive tmi situation because I want to just follow the beginners guide, and then bump around and try things for myself. The only thing stopping me is that I'm not sure I wont introduce permanent damage)

edit:

cfdisk reveals four existing partitions:

1: a large ntfs
2: a smaller, bootable vfat, 16106.13 MB
3: another large ntfs
4: an "EFI (FAT-12/16/32)" that is 16.78 MB

Last edited by theironknuckle (2012-12-14 05:44:00)

lspci · 2012-12-14 05:05:09

theironknuckle wrote:

i've just picked up a cheap eee pc netbook and want to nuke the HD and start installing arch from scratch, but apparently it uses some newfangled UEFI booting scheme rather than the traditional MBR style. Will wiping the HD completely brick the netbook?
(I've tried to rtfm but it's a massive tmi situation because I want to just follow the beginners guide, and then bump around and try things for myself. The only thing stopping me is that I'm not sure I wont introduce permanent damage)
edit:
cfdisk reveals four existing partitions:
1: a large ntfs
2: a smaller, bootable vfat, 16106.13 MB
3: another large ntfs
4: an "EFI (FAT-12/16/32)" that is 16.78 MB

No, wiping a hard drive, as far as I know, should never break a computer. It will render it inoperable until you install a new operating system on it, but it should not break it.

WonderWoofy · 2012-12-14 05:32:08

This is a terrible terrible title. It does not in any way describe your question. I only came here to tell you how crappy it is.

theironknuckle · 2012-12-14 05:44:16

cheers! fixed

lspci · 2012-12-14 06:06:15

WonderWoofy wrote:

This is a terrible terrible title. It does not in any way describe your question. I only came here to tell you how crappy it is.

Don't blame a guy for poor choice of words. Correcting is one thing, shaming is another.

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#1 2012-12-14 05:01:45

Will wiping the HD of a computer that uses UEFI brick the box?

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