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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] error - Preparing Tablet storage

While trying to flash a new ROM I think I may have unplugged the USB cable with the tablet still mounted to a laptop. I now can't seem to access that storage space in any way and am in turn unable to flash any ROM. I don't like the TnT and am trying to flash a ROM without it. Any ideas how to proceed?
Thanks in advance!

does it boot up at least? may be able to factory reset and start over. or even power+VOLUMEUP to try to recovery boot.
i just put on tntlite 2.0. it's super fast. doesn't use a computer. it just strips the stock OS

It does still boot but tablet storage is not accessible. When trying to get into recovery,i get a triangle then it boots normal. Not sure what else to try. Tried mounting in windows and linux to format our repair..no luck!

sounds like the storage partition is corrupted and it crashes when it tries to read it, expecially if you unplugged the cable mid-flash (ouch!)
clockwork mod should let you reformat and partition the internal storage, goodluck, hopefully it's not a low-level problem w/ the storage data structure, ya never know if you were flashing it when it crashed, depends on what mode it was using to flash data to the disk (normal write vs low-level format equiv)

Thanks KM....just to follow up on this thread...I had to return the tab to sears....I exchanged it for a new one and have put TnT lite 2.0 on it. I'm not all that happy and plan to try zpad as it seems like a smoother and faster responding ROM.

[QUESTION] Making USB boot Linux via Phone

Okay,
So I played with linux literally once or twice in my life and I never really dig into any deeper than that...
However I am aware / have made bootable Linux OS's in the past on just a normal USB, this was a few years back following some guides.
I have a Galaxy S and I know my computer tries to run the USB driver at boot because if my phone is plugged in the PC stalls at the Lenovo splash screen.
therefore it must be possible for it to run as a normal USB Boot so long as the right image in on the SD card in the phone.
My question is, how?
Any help greatly appreciated, going to start researching but any one with any quick ideas please let me know.
regards,
EDIT, I guess I will need to partition the SD Card, can I do this and not affect the Android OS? I presume it would have to be an external one too?

I guess that you could do it as long as your samsung mounts your SD when you boot your PC.
You could use a tool called UNETBOOTIN to create a USB-bootable version of any linux distro.
I would do this as follow:
- back up EVERYTHING in my SD card to a folder on PC
- run UNETBOOTIN and create a bootable linux on a usb stick
- copy everything from the usb stick to the root of your SD
- restore the files you have backed up earlier
If your Galaxy S mounts the SD card right at the boot of your PC then everything should work.
FYI you will not be able to see what is inside your SD, afaik, since linux will stay in a compressed filesystem image. So you won't be able to access your files on your phone, neither use it via ADB or fastboot.
Hope this has been helpful

Based on that last statement does that mean you cannot save anything on your USB boot versions of linux, since they are image files?

Samsung Galaxy Young , SD problem.[Solved]

Hi, i'd like to share this piece of work that took me 2 days to figure out.
I am a fresh owner of a Samsung Galaxy Young. Very nice piece of hardware for the price, if i might say.
Since i like tuning, and shaping my computer, i started doing that on my device. Keep in mind, i own the European version of the phone(i'm italian.)
So everything started when i tried to upgrade to 2.3.6. No european firmware yet.
So i downloaded some asian version with English support and flashed through odin.
Everything was fine, except that my 8gb microsd seemed dead.
after many tries, i manage to make it up and running trough an usb micro-sd reader on an xp laptop, and seem to have solved the problem by running a very deep chkdsk.
A few days later(about a week) Dang! here we go again, the sd is dead again.
Strange thing was, that on my older phone (gt-s5230) it seemed to work just fine. So why wasn't it working on android or windows either?
There we go: somehow it seems that the sectors of my sd where corrupted in a very bad way, because once loaded the sd on linux( i used a virtualbox VM in conjunction with Gparted, but it worked fine since the controller uses a usb mass storage driver and not a mmc one.) dmesg showed me a very long list of errors from trying to read it's sectors.
This explains, by the way, why with the older phone it worked fine: it didn't care.
So gparted wasn't working, stuck on trying to read the partition table of the sd;
then i decided to try a crazy thing: a simple command line program:
dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/sdb
It overwrote completely whatever remained of the bad sectors,along with the partition table and completely restored the sd to functionality; Just to be sure i formatted it in windows, fat32 FULL format(not the quick one).
Long story short, if you can't recover an sd, load it on linux, than launch this command:
dd if= (whatever file sufficiently long, say at least 400-700MBs, i used the cdrom because it was the fastest way in that occasion.) of=/dev/SDCARD (whatever device is the sd)
Then, full format under windows.
VERY IMPORTANT: if there is something that looks like /dev/SDCARD ,/dev/SDCARD1 or /dev/SDCARD2, do not put ANY number after the name of the device. we are going to do a brutal overwrite from sector zero; if you put in the number of the first partion or the second, you overwrite the partion without touching the sectors that our phones usually tries to read first, locking the sd.

Help installing Manjaro on Hybrid Drive

Hey all, i was hoping someone could help, im a little confused.
I've been using Xubuntu for a while, I had it installed on my Acer Aspire laptop that came with win 8. It has a 320gb hybrid drive with a 20gb SSD.
With xubuntu, i just set up all the partitions, i put / on the SSD, made a 500mb patition on the HDD and put boot on that.
then I had /home/username installed to the rest of the HDD. oh, I also had /tmp on another 15gb partition on the HDD.
anyway, that all worked well, long story short i got bored with xubuntu and tried Manjaro. I of course used the EFI test installer and insted of repartitioning everything I just used my previous ones. first put / on the SSD. then it asked me where i wanted to put "root", the next screen already had /boot entered, i added /efi to it. all went well, then I tried to add /home to my HDD and /tmp and it would just give me errors, i also tried like i did before "/home/username" and it would just error out.
so i did manage to skip adding /home to the HDD and just went ahead and installed everything to the SSD and it works, the only problem is, I cannot access my 320 HDD, its there and all my data is still on it, but i cant change anything without using root.
Is it just not possible to have it set up the way i had xubuntu set up? if so, is there a way i can have things just download to my HDD insted of the SSD?
Thanks for the help, and sorry for the long read.

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