Having trouble erasing HD completely

I recently did a full reinstall of Leopard and when I went to erase the Hard Drive it stated that there were still three files on the HD. When I did the reinstall all of my searches and other miscellaneous data was still on the HD. Any ideas on this?

Daimajin1 wrote:
I have done that, it still leaves 3 files. which keeps me from a complete erase.
In DU, create another small partition so that you have two.
Then delete the large partiton and erase what is left.
If that still does not work, in DU open a terminal and cd to the "empty" HD and enter the following:
ls -al
and you will see all the files on the drive.
If there are some, run
sudo rm *
you will be prompted for a password.
If the files are actually folders you may need to enter
rm -r *
to recursively empty the contents of the folders.
Did you ever install TechTool eDrive? That's a separate issue.

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