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how to format the hdd in a laptop with w2000 pro

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

Ubuntu ROM Flashing

Hi, guys, just wanted to ask it it possible to flash a ROM using Ubuntu (or in that case any other distro of Linux) or do you Need ActiveSync for that ?

If you havent got MS on your pc, then the best thing you can do is flash from memory card.

lipa47 said:
If you havent got MS on your pc, then the best thing you can do is flash from memory card.
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then that's what I'll do
Thanks, Lipa!

you can flash from sd...simply rename the file ...nbh in kaisimg.ngh, put on sd and than hard reset

i just stumbled across this thread while looking for a solution to this problem. i am currently transfering everything over from my windows vista to my ubuntu so that i can eventually delete the entire windows partition. however, i do not have an sd card, so does anyone know a way to do this without one?

Windows computer or SD card.
You can get an SD card for like $20 at radioshack.
Just make sure to format it to FAT32 before you kill windows, else the bootloader on the phone won't read the image.
Edit:
http://shop.kingston.com/PartsInfo.asp?ktcpartno=SDC/2GB&promo=XD07PH
ten bux.

opgadgets said:
i just stumbled across this thread while looking for a solution to this problem. i am currently transfering everything over from my windows vista to my ubuntu so that i can eventually delete the entire windows partition. however, i do not have an sd card, so does anyone know a way to do this without one?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=399762

i have ubuntu and i flash using this app, works perfectly cause i used to flash with the sdcard but some of the newer cooked roms wont flash thru the sdcard. The app is very simple and self explanitory, you just have to put in bootloader mode (hold cam+power while softreseting) then plug it in when you get to the 3color screen
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=399762

thanks guys

how to partition SD in windows xp

I have seen it in several places on this forum that it is not possible to partition an SD card, or any other removable media in windows. This is incorrect. It is possible.
TRY THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK
First...
BACK UP YOUR CARD - YOU WILL LOOSE ALL DATA
Download windows enabler from softpediahere
second...
navigate to the folder you downloaded to and start the EXE. this app doesn't install, you just run in. You will notice a new icon in your SYSTRAY (the area by the clock). click on it once and you will see the icon changes to read "on".
third...
Be a bit careful now because you have just turned on every greyed out option in windows. (this can be useful for all sorts of things but be carefull)
Go into control panel>administrative tools>computer manager.
on the left click on Disk management.
find your SD card. If there is already a partition on it right click and click on delete partition. This is usually greyed out but if you followed all the instructions it wont be.
Fourth...
right click again and click on New Partition. select primary in the wizard and leave the drive letter as is (or change if you really feel the need).
In the next screen you will be given the option of changeing the size, but... you guessed, it's greyed out. Never mind though, click there anyway and magically it is not greyed out any more. type in the size you want and format the partition.
you can now repeat step four for the next partition but when you get to the partition type all three options are grey, again if you just click on them they "come alive" because of windows enabler. There are various tools wich allow you to format to EXT2 from windows once the partition is created. I'm not gonna reccomend one becase I actually used one from panasonic and it was a bit rubbish, I dont know of a good one - go google and past here if you find a nice one.
I suggest deleting windows enabler at this stage as it is a dangerous peice of software. Keep the zip for future use!
You can also do this by editing the registry and skip the windows enabler part but I don't like the idea of giving directions for that, too easy to get it wrong and this is probably quicker, even including the download time for the enabler.

It works up to this step:
find your SD card. If there is already a partition on it right click and click on delete partition. This is usually greyed out but if you followed all the instructions it wont be.
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I've got message like:
The operation is not supported on removeable media
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What now?

This nifty little program does allow me to use the grayed out functionality, but still I cannot create 2 partitions on 1 SD card.
I have however been able to set the partition on my SD card to active with the help of this tool.
Robin

mrwam said:
It works up to this step:
I've got message like:
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I got the same message... Windows Vista 32-bit

try paragon partition manager 9 to create partition for the sdcard..
or download ubuntu and you can format it using ubuntu.

robpet2 said:
try paragon partition manager 9 to create partition for the sdcard..
or download ubuntu and you can format it using ubuntu.
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Live CD? I'm not willing to completely ditch Windows just to partition a lowly SD card.

U don't have to ditch windows... ubuntu let's u dual boot, and then u can delete ubuntu when u want to

robpet2 said:
U don't have to ditch windows... ubuntu let's u dual boot, and then u can delete ubuntu when u want to
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Still not interested and that doesn't answer my question really. Can formatting through an Ubuntu Live CD be successful? I have an Ubuntu Ultimate CD handy.

Thought u would have figured it out but u didn't.. the answer to your question is yes u can format using ubuntu... paragon worked for me easy.. but its up to on what u want to use to partition the sdcard...

Paragon (trial version) worked very well for me. It was intuitive and easy to do, I'm not the best with things like this but I didn't need more direction than "use Paragon, make EXT2 partition, no bigger than 2gb on Class 6 card".

uberingram said:
Still not interested and that doesn't answer my question really. Can formatting through an Ubuntu Live CD be successful? I have an Ubuntu Ultimate CD handy.
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I used Ubuntu but not running it on the live CD. Install it as a program in Vista. Then u can boot into Ubuntu after a restart.

thanks

partittion help

Ok....I've used partition manager to delete my partition on my sd. I tried to make a new fat32 but it failed. So now when I go into usb mode I can't view my files. Understandable BUT I can still view and acess my files using astro. Is there anyway to delete my partion (format) and create a new fat32 partition through the terminal emulator or adb. PLEASE HELP GUYS my sdcard reader just messed up the other day so I'm screwed.

barger01 said:
Ok....I've used partition manager to delete my partition on my sd. I tried to make a new fat32 but it failed. So now when I go into usb mode I can't view my files. Understandable BUT I can still view and acess my files using astro. Is there anyway to delete my partion (format) and create a new fat32 partition through the terminal emulator or adb. PLEASE HELP GUYS my sdcard reader just messed up the other day so I'm screwed.
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try the post of the script for partitioning yoru sd card from terminal.. or you need a sd card reader for using paragon partition manager, for best results.

Nitro212 said:
try the post of the script for partitioning yoru sd card from terminal.. or you need a sd card reader for using paragon partition manager, for best results.
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I dont have a script. I need a command that i can run from either Terminal or adb. Im pretty sure there is a command out there that can repartion a sdcard through terminal or adb.

barger01 said:
I dont have a script. I need a command that i can run from either Terminal or adb. Im pretty sure there is a command out there that can repartion a sdcard through terminal or adb.
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Try this. It is a program that worked great for me when Partition Magic did not. It is called Copy Commander. Burn to disc and boot. You can install from windows but it requires a key so it's limited. But it'll serve it's purpose. It works on XP and Vista.

in this case you might as well burn a ubuntu disk and partition under linux, which works 100% using the phone itself.
A point to note: most new sd cards are formated as a raw fat, i.e. without a partition table or boot sector. If this is the case, windows cannot create the partition table for you and you cannot create partitions using the build-in disk manager. Linux on the other hand is perfectly okay with this and will happily partition it for you.

Binary100100 said:
Try this. It is a program that worked great for me when Partition Magic did not. It is called Copy Commander. Burn to disc and boot. You can install from windows but it requires a key so it's limited. But it'll serve it's purpose. It works on XP and Vista.
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I burned it and let it boot up but it never recongnized my sd. I mounted it through my phone and clicked refresh a hundred times but nothing=-(

barger01 said:
I burned it and let it boot up but it never recongnized my sd. I mounted it through my phone and clicked refresh a hundred times but nothing=-(
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Make sure you have usb devices enabled in your bios.

Help: Partition data recovery

I have a 160 gb hard disk on my desktop with windows 7 and puppy linux installed today I wanted to extend the size of my c volume where both were installed, by mistake I converted my c partition to dynamic the os' s weren't booting up - boot mgr was missing, then I inserted my windows xp disc and when I was in the partition part I deleted one partition of 40 gb then it showed me 157gb unallocated space I have not installed windows now as I thought I have formatted my whole hard disk now please anyone suggest a way to recover the data on all other drives
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prajyotsingh said:
I have a 160 gb hard disk on my desktop with windows 7 and puppy linux installed today I wanted to extend the size of my c volume where both were installed, by mistake I converted my c partition to dynamic the os' s weren't booting up - boot mgr was missing, then I inserted my windows xp disc and when I was in the partition part I deleted one partition of 40 gb then it showed me 157gb unallocated space I have not installed windows now as I thought I have formatted my whole hard disk now please anyone suggest a way to recover the data on all other drives
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Check with google
Backtrack or Kali Linux distributions will boot from USB or CD and come with tools for 'data recovery' that maybe able to help. If the data that you want to recover has been written over by other data; then things can be a little tougher. The best stuff for doing what I think you want to do is going to run in a terminal window not a GUI, so hopefully you're comfortable with the command line
Let me know if I need to be more specific and I'll see about adding better instructions, otherwise, google up some 'forensic data or drive recovery or imaging' software for one of the above suggested distributions and you should be able to recover the important stuff.
Sent from either my SPH-D700 or myTouch3Gs
Debian Kit Install guide for all android devices that I'm writing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240397
Or
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ssVeIhdBuuy8CtpBP1lWgUkG6fR6oHxP20ToYPPw6zI/edit?usp=drive_web

Try loading any linux from usb and download testdisk recovery tool its a cross platform supported program that saved me many times. Google for testdisk and how to use it.Hope this helps.
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I'm back from helping someone else with something similar. Had an sdcard go out, saying "damaged sd" and here is how they recovered nearly all the data...
From Backtrack Linux...
dd was able to make a forensic image of the SD card, and testdisk was able to show and save unlinked files from the image file, so we were able to get all her photos and videos back!
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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The "unlinked" files when scrolling through should have the first two characters or letters messed up, and the link provided should have directions on how to recover lost data. The thing to do is "dd" as this will make a full copy of everything to another drive, this will alow you to try different methods of recovery on the copy without risking the original drive.
Hope you get it all back
Sent from either my SPH-D700 or myTouch3Gs
Debian Kit/QEMU Linux Install guide for all android devices that I'm writing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240397
Now have working Installers for ARM Java 7 JDK + Maptools + jMonkey

In windows , there are many tools
In windows , there are many tools,but in linux ,I dont know much