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August 3rd, 2005, 10:37 AM
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| I need to wipe my hard drive...
Anyone know how to do this? | 
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August 3rd, 2005, 10:39 AM
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| | Onii-san
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Boot up with your OS install disc/disk and do a format there.
What Operating System are you running?
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August 3rd, 2005, 10:41 AM
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use the software from your drive manufacturer
or download the zap/wipe combo | |
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August 3rd, 2005, 10:47 AM
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| | Fossil
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August 3rd, 2005, 11:58 AM
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I'm running Windows XP SP2 (downloaded). | |
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August 3rd, 2005, 11:59 AM
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| | Onii-san
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You downloaded Windows XP, or you downloaded SP2?
If the drive you are trying to wipre is not the drive with Windows Installed, you can format the drive inside of windows using the cmd prompt or buy doing it through computer management.
Last edited by Bizkitkid2001 : August 3rd, 2005 at 12:05 PM.
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August 3rd, 2005, 12:08 PM
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I downloaded SP2.
The drive I'm trying to wipe is the same one where Windows is installed. I'm going to sell my pc, so I just want to delete everything, then reinstall Windows if I have to. | |
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August 3rd, 2005, 12:08 PM
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| | A hero in training
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Originally Posted by Theophylact | | |
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August 3rd, 2005, 12:09 PM
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| | Onii-san
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Why go through the trouble of downloading another program that does the same thing is the Windows Xp Install disc?
If you are going to reinstall Windows XP on it, during the install you can have it format the drive which will erase everything. | |
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August 3rd, 2005, 12:13 PM
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| | A hero in training
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Wipes out all floppies and hard disk drives completely by secure overwriting data on physical level using [One Pass Zeros] data destruction method
| not sure how secure windows format is really | |
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