I have a PII 300mhz laptop that has windows xp. I'm going to sell it, but I think it's running on windows xp corporate. I want to reformat the drive without reinstallint any OS. That way who ever buys the laptop can install their own OS. Is there a way to do that?
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Need help reformatting drive.
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MentallyNormal
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You could load up the xp disc and just delete the partition.
But if you really want to nuke the drive from information there is a program called dban nuke.
It wipes the drive clean of any information you have. I believe it normally runs 3 passes to ensure that any sensitive info was nuke and would be pita to retrieve from disc recovery utilities.
But if you really want to nuke the drive from information there is a program called dban nuke.
It wipes the drive clean of any information you have. I believe it normally runs 3 passes to ensure that any sensitive info was nuke and would be pita to retrieve from disc recovery utilities.
hulksterjoe
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pII 300 ..running xp.. can you say S L O W ...ouch
hulksterjoe said:
I bought it to run a fuel management system in my modded car. But now that I'm selling the car, I no longer need the laptop. It was running pretty smooth with windows xp untill I installed the service pack 2. Then it was very slow.
Also, do you guys know if the drive is reformatted with a programs like the ones mentioned above, will it be possible to install an older version of windows like windows 98 or ME? I heard something about windows 98 not working on an NTFS file system.
The XP disk creates a partition just like MentallyNormal said but I haven't used Win98 in so long that I really don't remember if it does the same thing. You might want to use your XP disk and create a partition of FAT32 since it works on 98 and XP and then if the person wants to do NTFS then they can set that up themselves.
I went out and bought Partition Magic 8 a long time ago to do stuff like this and it works great, you won't need it for doing this but its still a great program to have around if you have multiple systems and like to mess with partitions
I went out and bought Partition Magic 8 a long time ago to do stuff like this and it works great, you won't need it for doing this but its still a great program to have around if you have multiple systems and like to mess with partitions