sorry to ask: before to sell my IBM laptop with windows 2000 pro installed on hdd, i need to format this hdd, in order to give my laptop with hdd completely empty. how to do ? could somebody give me detailed instructions, because i'm not able ? thank you in advance
you of cause cant do it from inside windows since formatting would also format windows
go to www.bootdisk.com and get an image for a floppy and boot from it and format
boot and nuke
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
u can download an opensource utility the will completley wipe your hard drive and make all the data unrecoverable even up to ministy of defence standards. Download the iso and write it to a CD. Boot from it and follow the instructions
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Hey everyone,
For those of you who are having trouble partitioning your SD Card, be it because you can't work the onphone programs or that you can't install ubuntu or partition your hard drive then check out "Wubi"
Wubi is a "Windows Application" it installs just like any other windows app the difference is it will install Ubuntu on your PC. Similar to a virtual machine it creates a "virtual hard drive" on your PC and allows you to boot into that hard drive (which of course contains ubuntu).
It's hard to explain how it works but here's the general jist of it:
No Partitioning, No Lengthy Downloads, No Burning to DVD. Simply run the windows application, install and boot into Ubuntu. If you want to remove it, go to Add/Remove Programs in windows like you would with a normal app.
This will allow you to then go into the Partition Editor and partition your SD Card into FAT32, EXT2/3 and/or Linux-Swap partitions easily.
Here's the link:
http://wubi-installer.org/
NOTE: Will only work in Windows 7 RC if you run in Compatibility mode for Windows Vista.
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Hey everyone,
For those of you who are having trouble partitioning your SD Card, be it because you can't work the onphone programs or that you can't install ubuntu or partition your hard drive then check out "Wubi"
Wubi is a "Windows Application" it installs just like any other windows app the difference is it will install Ubuntu on your PC. Similar to a virtual machine it creates a "virtual hard drive" on your PC and allows you to boot into that hard drive (which of course contains ubuntu).
It's hard to explain how it works but here's the general jist of it:
No Partitioning, No Lengthy Downloads, No Burning to DVD. Simply run the windows application, install and boot into Ubuntu. If you want to remove it, go to Add/Remove Programs in windows like you would with a normal app.
This will allow you to then go into the Partition Editor and partition your SD Card into FAT32, EXT2/3 and/or Linux-Swap partitions easily.
Here's the link:
http://wubi-installer.org/
NOTE: Will only work in Windows 7 RC if you run in Compatibility mode for Windows Vista.
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no lenghty downloads?!?!- i downloaded the setup exe and it said it was going to take 10 hours to download the .iso file...
Was going to install this and try it out but 16hr ISO download. Ill still with sdparted or Paragon
futango said:
Was going to install this and try it out but 16hr ISO download. Ill still with sdparted or Paragon
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agreed... good news though... if you download and burn the ubuntu 9.04 iso from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download you can choose wubi as an install option... i downloaded the iso and it took a whole 32 minutes to download... not bad at all.
Apologies palosjr, I knew that it downloaded the ISO but it took me only around 3 minutes so I assumed that Wubi downloaded from a different location to the where you would download the standard ISO.
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agreed... good news though... if you download and burn the ubuntu 9.04 iso from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download you can choose wubi as an install option... i downloaded the iso and it took a whole 32 minutes to download... not bad at all.
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Nice. I already do have ubuntu 9.04 on disk. Thats good to know though.
Hello. I have a laptop with dual boot system, opensuse 11.2 and windows xp in the same hard disk.
I tried to remove suse doing the following :
Ι loaded windows xp cd and get in recovery console. After that i did Fixmbr and fixboot.
After that, after the bios screen, i get a black sceen with the message "invalid partition table"
If i type a "dir" command i can see my files, so the disks partiotions are not corrupted i guess. Just the MBR is damaged. I need help guys on how to restore my system.
As a hardware tool, i have an external usb floppy drive that can be helpfull.
plz help me out guys...
Help! SP3 Reset Your PC "Unable to reset PC. A required drive partition is missing."
Hi everyone, I have a Surface Pro 3 and i made a huge mistake today. I was messing around with EasyBCD and NeoGrub trying to get android to dualboot on my surface, besides the point. I went to delete my bad boot entries and accidentally deleted all of my BCD files.
I figured i could reinstall windows 10 and that didn't work because the drive was locked?.
I wiped the drive in CMD prompt and i cant figure out what to do to get my surface to allow me to re install windows.
Where i am:
I have a recovery USB but when i try to Reset my pc i get an error "Unable to reset your PC. A required drive partition is missing."
I cant refresh because "the drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again." plus im pretty sure i have reformatted my drive already.
I am good with computers but not great and i dont want to do anymore damage.
Can anyone walk me through the steps needed to remake the partition to get windows to allow me to use the "Reset your PC" option. I do not care about lost data.
howd you fix this?
Im wondering if its possible to create windows to go on android phone. I need as test device for laptops. But it would be awesome if this is even possible. Maybe creating additional partition from storage and them making that partition in rufus bootable. When connecting phone so u have option to make thar partition behave as usb stick so it will boot windows directly from that phone storage. Is this possible
Get drivedroid it's on the play store. IT REQUIRES ROOT ACCESS!!!!
wallor77 said:
Im wondering if its possible to create windows to go on android phone. I need as test device for laptops. But it would be awesome if this is even possible. Maybe creating additional partition from storage and them making that partition in rufus bootable. When connecting phone so u have option to make thar partition behave as usb stick so it will boot windows directly from that phone storage. Is this possible
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Awesome! Why not have a try and let us know the result!
Hello, booting an iso or any kind of image file from your phone to pc is possible, but you may encounter some problems.
DriveDroid is a good app but it requires root
here is a guide
http://www.geekomad.com/2013/08/how-to-make-android-phone-as-bootable.html
good luck!
Long story short, I did the fall creators update and it bsod my machine. It would NOT let me boot from any usb. I ensured usb was the first boot priority, I ensured it was formatted as fat32 and or a GPT partition. I tried a 16gb flash drive, a 32gb flash drive and a 256gb flash drive. No matter what I do, I can not get the surface to boot with any windows ISO or recovery image or files. However, I can boot from linux distro's perfectly fine from the flash drives. I decided to install linux mint completely to the nvme drive and it seems to be working well. However, I need windows back.
To clarify, this is on the new surface 2017 model 1796, not that it matters but it's the core i5 model with 128gb nvme storage and 4gb of ram.
TLDR: Only linux will boot from flash drives, windows PE won't boot, windows won't boot etc. They all just bsod.
If anyone can help me solve this, I will literally PAY you.
Last resort is driving the 6 hour round trip drive to Microsoft. I plan on doing that this Saturday if I can't fix it before then. If you have any ideas / tips / suggestions, please let me know. I've put about 15 hours into this machine with no luck thus far!
SurfaceHelp said:
Long story short, I did the fall creators update and it bsod my machine. It would NOT let me boot from any usb. I ensured usb was the first boot priority, I ensured it was formatted as fat32 and or a GPT partition. I tried a 16gb flash drive, a 32gb flash drive and a 256gb flash drive. No matter what I do, I can not get the surface to boot with any windows ISO or recovery image or files. However, I can boot from linux distro's perfectly fine from the flash drives. I decided to install linux mint completely to the nvme drive and it seems to be working well. However, I need windows back.
To clarify, this is on the new surface 2017 model 1796, not that it matters but it's the core i5 model with 128gb nvme storage and 4gb of ram.
TLDR: Only linux will boot from flash drives, windows PE won't boot, windows won't boot etc. They all just bsod.
If anyone can help me solve this, I will literally PAY you.
Last resort is driving the 6 hour round trip drive to Microsoft. I plan on doing that this Saturday if I can't fix it before then. If you have any ideas / tips / suggestions, please let me know. I've put about 15 hours into this machine with no luck thus far!
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You want to back to Windows 10 on your Surface?
Download Windows 10 creation tool on your another PC: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO, and follow the instructions in YouTube videos.
You can install Windows 10 to your Surface (install to NVMe drive, not on external storage/drive) using USB flash drive.