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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

[Q] .Can anybody resolve it.

I havesamsung galaxy s Gt I9003,It has a strange situation.when it is restored to factory settings, it does not go back to basic settings but it still has the previous applications installed.Even user account still exists.When installed applications are uninsatlled,they come back after some time..Same is the case with user account that it cannot be removed.I have inserted no external memory card.i connected phone to pc and start usb debugging..i formatted phone internal usb storage.But most strange thing is that nothing is deleted in this storage although computer says that drive is formatted successfully.I reconnect the phone to the computer and look everything is still there,,,even after mannualy deleting files ie songs photos,they are back again....What kind of fault is this?
Most important is that a virus is spread from phone internal usb to my whole hard disk of computer which i cleared by usuing kaspersky,,I also scan phone usb storage..,kaspersky detects virus and deletes it..But it is still in there..
And last but not least,,I fllashed it with all versions of Froyo and gingerbread but that bloody user account and his applications are still there..Can you believe this,everything is intact in phone usb even after formatting it in recovery mood.
Final thing,actually no application run on this phone.if it is started,an error message is popped that" application(---) has stopped unexpectedly.please try again".This handset has no warranty.
Please somebody help

moon187 said:
I havesamsung galaxy s Gt I9003,It has a strange situation.when it is restored to factory settings, it does not go back to basic settings but it still has the previous applications installed.Even user account still exists.When installed applications are uninsatlled,they come back after some time..Same is the case with user account that it cannot be removed.I have inserted no external memory card.i connected phone to pc and start usb debugging..i formatted phone internal usb storage.But most strange thing is that nothing is deleted in this storage although computer says that drive is formatted successfully.I reconnect the phone to the computer and look everything is still there,,,even after mannualy deleting files ie songs photos,they are back again....What kind of fault is this?
Most important is that a virus is spread from phone internal usb to my whole hard disk of computer which i cleared by usuing kaspersky,,I also scan phone usb storage..,kaspersky detects virus and deletes it..But it is still in there..
And last but not least,,I fllashed it with all versions of Froyo and gingerbread but that bloody user account and his applications are still there..Can you believe this,everything is intact in phone usb even after formatting it in recovery mood.
Final thing,actually no application run on this phone.if it is started,an error message is popped that" application(---) has stopped unexpectedly.please try again".This handset has no warranty.
Please somebody help
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I would suggest you to try and do a factory reset once more from settings . If that also doesn't work then u can do a hard reset . There's a guide somewhere by Adi_Pat which shows how u can do a hard reset. There is a small button beside the camera for the hard reset . Let me see if i can find the link for you .
EDIT : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1411768
Hard reset is to recover a soft bricked phone . May be u can ignore this for now.
One more thing i would suggest is to flash stock from odin . Start afresh from kpe using repartition and pit files . That should do the trick. And an advice is dont use the virus infected machine to flash . Try with a different machine and report back .

try this code in dialer
*2767*3855#
hope this help
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

Same sa Before
Thank you brother for your reply.
I have tried your advised trick six times but it did not help.I flashed it with Froyo DXKF1 and then with gingerbread KPE.As before,when phone is started after flashing,five or six messages pop up automatically about various applications.These messages are like this one.
"Sorry!The application Flowers live Wallpaper(process com.parindeyapps.flowers) has stopped unexpectedly.please try again"
Same messages appear about other applaications eg Vault,Skype etc..
No external memory card is present in phone.
And,i have described in first post about virus..This virus is present in phone internal usb storage,not in the pc.It infected the pc after connecting phone to it..Kaspersky cleared this virus from pc but not from phone.

Same sa Before
no brother,,this code did not help..same situation after rastarting

[Q] Soft-bricked Droid DNA -- any hope to recover this phone?

Hi all,
I spent several hours searching for the solution and I had no luck. I picked this phone up on craigslist for parts, but now I'm hoping to figure out a way to bring it back to life. The previous owner tried rooting the phone and deleted the rom in TWRP. I picked it up from where he left off and I cannot get Windows XP to recognize this phone as an external drive so that I can copy a rom onto it (I also tried Windows Vista, 7, and Mac OS).
When I connect the phone to the computer it does recognize as an external drive, but when I try to open it I get a message saying "please insert disk into drive E:". See pics in attachments.
I installed HTC Sync in hopes it will give me drivers that will help, but no luck. Is there anything else I can try to load a rom onto this phone?
thanks in advance!
Alex

URGENT• Windows 8.1 rt unable to reset via USB help

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

No touch screen in TWRP

Hi everyone, I was trying to return my moto g7+ to stock. I had wiped all partitions except internal, ext sd, and otg. I already had motorola_moto_g7_plus_xt1965-2_lake_retail_br_9.0_ppw29.98-66.zip on my sd card, but when I tried to install it it gave me an error message. I then downloaded it from motostockrom.com to my desktop. Then I copied it to a usb thumb drive and connected it to my phone via an otg cable. When I looked for it in TWRP, it wasn't listed. I removed the thumb drive and deleted everything but the .zip file and it still listed all of the files that I had deleted and not the .zip. I rebooted the phone and when it rebooted, I went into TWRP but my touch screen didn't work so I couldn't do anything. I tried to connect to phone via ADB but it wasn't being recognized. Strange thing, when TWRP starts, I can access the internal storage and the micro SD card folders on my computer. I've read other's posts with the same problems but I haven't seen any solutions. I'm using TWRP 3.5.2 _9-0. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Can you enter fone gui? You need to revoke adb keys in dev options in fone in order to regrant them, then reboot back into twrp, and twrp adb should work, but if you can get in fone gui, and load adb, use Vysor, google it, Vysor gives your pc mouse control of your fone in your pc as if you were at the phone screen. Google Vysor.
An awfy long way to say screen dont work lol, Prob solved in 1 word.
If you cant enter gui, get back to me

Pachacouti said:
Can you enter fone gui? You need to revoke adb keys in dev options in fone in order to regrant them, then reboot back into twrp, and twrp adb should work, but if you can get in fone gui, and load adb, use Vysor, google it, Vysor gives your pc mouse control of your fone in your pc as if you were at the phone screen. Google Vysor.
An awfy long way to say screen dont work lol, Prob solved in 1 word.
If you cant enter gui, get back to me
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I came across a post that mentioned using a mouse with the otg cable so I tried that. I was able to access the controls in TWRP. I was still getting the error message "invalid zip file format! Error installing zip file '/external_sd/Motorola_Moto_G7_Plus_XT1965-2_LAKE_RETAIL_BR_9.0_PPW29.98-111_(by_motostockrom.com) (1).zip".
Is there a spelling error, re: (by_motostockrom.com)? I tried to restore to a point that I had saved from 2020 which said that it had completed sucessfully but resulted in a boot loop. I tried to restore to the other save from 2021, but it gave an error "Cannot restore firmware -- mounted read only." In recovery, if I go to file manager, all of the entries are 20+ character alphanumeric, which I had experienced before when I tried to do a restore but my phone was encrypted.