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
Hi
I got Surface RT second hand. And I can't reset it.
If I use Setting > General > Remove everything and reinstall windows
It says missing some file
If I use to create recovery driver
The option "Copy the recovery partition from PC to recovery drive" is grey I can't select this option.
and after I pressed next it says "some require files are missing".
When open Disk Management
It found 4 partitions
C:
Recovery (300MB) no letter
EFI Sytem (200MB) no letter
Recovery (3.25 GB) no letter
I can't assign drive letter via Disk Management.
I use diskpart to assign drive letter.
It has 3 file inside
- install.win
- ResetConfig
- CreatePartition-UEFI
How can I use them for recovery? I copy 3 files to flashdrive but can't boot via Surface.
Is Anyone can upload recovery image for me?
I really need to reset my Surface.
Thank you and sorry for my bad english.
Can any one upload recovery usb image with or without install.wim file?
Why don't you ask Surface support? ?? Won't they send you a img?
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.
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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
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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
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?
I needed to do a reset using a
USB recovery image on my surface RT since i can't pass the surface logo when powered on
So I downloaded the recovery image for my surface from the surface website,
At the end of the download a message popped up saying that install.wim is corrupt. I downloaded it again and same happened.
I followed the instructions after extracting the zip file onto the usb (which i bought earlier just for this purpose and has 16gb and FAT32 formatted) And the install.wim wasn't copied into it.
When i reached to the troubleshoot option there was only 3 options; refresh. Reset. Advanced options.
When i hit refresh it says: the drive where windows is installed is locked. Unlock and try again.
When i hit reset= unable to reset, a required drive partition is missing.
Please help ASAP I need it to continue my studying