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To: TH who wrote (14405)12/28/2003 8:30:19 PM
From: wily  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14778
 
Are there portions of the disk you do not want to erase? If not I would find a low-level format utility (probably you can download one from the manufacturer's website). This writes 0's (or is it 1's?) to each bit on the disk.

If you need to save one or more partitions, I don't know what to do other than transfer those partitions to another disk, do the LL format and then transfer back.

Nothing like starting fresh <g>.



To: TH who wrote (14405)12/29/2003 6:26:18 AM
From: thecow  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14778
 
TH

Have you tried booting from the XP installation CD? You should be able to wipe everything with it.