Re: Need Hard Drive on XP Laptop Scrubbed Clean
- From: "Mark M Morse" <mmm4444bot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:23:57 -0700
Hi Bill:
I don't understand it either. When I use XP to create a bootable disk (floppy or CD-ROM from floppy image), the disk boots the system to a version of DOS that shipped with Windows ME. The only drive that the system recognizes in this DOS version is the drive from which it booted. In other words, if I boot from a floppy, then the CD drive and the hard drive are not available. If I boot from a CD-ROM, then the floppy drive and the hard drive are not available.
Any attempt to change to a drive letter other than a: or b: leads to an 'invalid drive' error; changing to drive b: leads to a 'drive not ready' error. Drive a: is the only drive that Windows ME DOS can work with.
Zilbandy gave me a suggestion that lead me to discover software that boots to other platforms. I tried some Linux applications, and they worked for me.
~ Mark
"bxf" <bill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1172828079.591310.14840@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mar 2, 8:50 am, "Mark M Morse" <mmm4444...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I found some "kill disk" utilities on the Internet, but I know that
writing them to a bootable CD won't work because the hard drive will
not be recognized.
I don't understand this. Why?
.
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