Re: how to wipe the hard-drive?

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Mike, did you boot with the XP CD installed or just try to do it from the CD
drive ?

--
Jerry

One thing money can't buy,
The wagging tail of a dog


"Mike Webb" <Mike_Webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an old PII 233 MHZ PC I want to install SCT (shared computer
toolkit) on for recreational use by the college kids who work for us on
projects during the year. SCT requires 2 partitions to work. No problem -
I was able to do this easily with a PIII a few weeks ago by using a utility
called DBAN v1.04 ("boot and nuke") so I could start from scratch. For
some reason it won't work this time. I've also tried to do a fresh
re-install of XP - but can't get it to let me create a new partition from
the main C:\. Tried to find a wipe-disk utility (freeware) on the 'net,
but couldn't find a true "wipe disk" utility.

Any ideas?

--
Mike Webb
Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust, Inc.
a 501 (c)(3) organization



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