Re: Can I resell XP computers in my consignment shop without COA? ... There is nothing "definitely ridiculous" about this, none of the NT format utilities have ever written zeros to the hard disk and there is absolutely no need to zero fill a hard disk when it is formated. ... The format utility can scan the disk for bad sectors without having to zero fill the drive. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Unallocated space marked as allocated in MFT ... I did use the Seagate... suggesting I format the new Seagate drive, install a fresh copy of Windows... > hard disk, and do a format of the hard disk using the utility that you can ... (microsoft.public.windows.file_system)
Re: Hard Disk Corruption After Fail Hibernate Wakeup ... Try to install Ubuntu after formating Linux partition,... Got fed up, format the entire hard disk, start from fresh and try to install Ubuntu. ... (comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage)
Re: Microsoft says: Full Format/Quick Format will erase data? ... /*If the hard disk already contains data, back it up Make sure that you back ... there are many who claims that a windows format won't erase data ... and 'most if not all' can still be recover by some data recovery software.... The control table entry is still available. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.accessibility)
Re: Can I do it to Conduit? ... We bought 100 and determined my office was a prime site.... The command was for the PC, not XT (hard disk).... I renamed the exe and created a bat file that forced checking for proper format....NRA LOH & Patron Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot's Medal. ... (rec.crafts.metalworking)
