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| IG-88:
Hey all. I'm in need of some help. I have some old HD's that need wiped and have win xp pro installed on them. All have minor to major virus/spyware infestations, thus the complete cleaning. My question(s), what would be the most efficient way of going about this. I'm not really familiar with boot disks, fdisking and formatting but I need to learn about it. Can anyone help? |
| Rudi:
The easy way would be to boot with the WinXP CD, and when it asks you which partition to use you delete the existing one and recreate it. Then it has a new and empty partition to use. If that doesn't work you will have to create a DOS/Win98 boot floppy with FDISK. If you don't know how to make one, just ask and I can create an ISO image of one of mine and send it to you. Rudi |
| IG-88:
I've done the partition deletion thing and I don't think it's getting all the crap that's on some of these drives. For example even after deleting and re-partioning, I'm still getting pop-ups and "mysterious" icons showing up and I'm not even connected to the internet |
| EndTwist:
--- Quote from: IG-88 on June 04, 2005, 09:55:47 pm ---I've done the partition deletion thing and I don't think it's getting all the crap that's on some of these drives. For example even after deleting and re-partioning, I'm still getting pop-ups and "mysterious" icons showing up and I'm not even connected to the internet >:( I've found a basic tutorial, http://www.compguysinc.com/techweb/fdisk/fdisk_run.shtml on how to FDISK, Format, and Reinstall Windows 9x on a PC, but I guess I'm a little leery on wiping these HD's completely and then trying to put the XP back on them. I guess I need some basic files on the boot disk like: --- End quote --- |
| SirPoonga:
well, you really want to wipe a hd get the tool from the hd manufacture. It will have a low level format that will basical write 0s to every sector. |
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