Re: xp Pro reinstall fails

After serious thinking Dolph46 wrote :
I am trying to reinstall XP Pro on my daughters old computer so she can give it to a friend. During the deleting of old XP files on the existing NTFS partion, the notr book completel shuts down. I tried to reformat the HD (NTFS) and in does the same thing. ??? Never had this problem before.

I would do it again, to get your HD really clean, use both of these, they are instant ( no waiting ) start with Zap 1st & WIPE OUT immediately after. Both can go on your boot disk ( either floppy or cd ) Set your bios to boot from floppy or cd 1st. Only safe way to clean up the HD, is to do it on it's own, in other words no other HD connected to the cable.

Zap
http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/BootToolsRefs.htm#ZAP
http://www.digitalissues.co.uk/html/os/misc/ibm-wipe-zap.html
Freeware.
Zap is a DOS software utility that writes zeroes to the first 128 sectors on a hard disk drive, including the Master Boot Record and the first Partition Boot Record. It can be used with both SCSI and IDE drives. This function is now included in the Drive Fitness Test.

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WIPE OUT
http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/index.html
http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/wipeout.zip
Freeware.
WIPE OUT: as the name implies, this utility will absolutely WIPE your hard drive. For those times when an industrial strength cleaner is needed to remove any pesky files Fdisk may have left behind. A readme file is included in the zip file. WARNING...WIPE OUT will remove ALL data from the Hard Drive.

DIRECTIONS

1- Unzip file
2- Copy WIPE OUT to a Win95/98/ME boot disk or put the boot disk, Zap & WIPE OUT onto cd.
3- Boot with Win9x disk, make sure the bios is set to boot from floppy or cd 1st.
4- At the A:\> type "wipeout c: /nq /np" (no quotes)
/nq = no queries - you will not be asked if you are sure.
/np = no partitions - this will overwrite the MBR

Press Enter.

Now use your XP cd to format & partition.
Or,
Run fdisk to set up partitions.
http://fdisk.radified.com/
When done, reboot & format.


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