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by lloyd.earle

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Hi all,

is there a site to download a wipe CD? i need to wipe my hard drive that has vista on it. i tried to erase it by using the XP cd with no luck. keep getting a blue screen, all reply will be appreciated. i have no floppy drive.
i have a USB key.

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by lei fan

not allow you to format from XP installation disc???

by lloyd.earle

no it's not getting blue screen everytime i try to install.

by shhite

It sounds like there might be a bad spot on your hard drive. You can try wiping it but if the hard drive is bad you will get the same problem once you try to install XP again.

It might be easier to run a diagnostic on the hard drive to see if it is bad.

Do you know the kind of hard drive you have?

by shasca

If the PC will boot to the XP CD you will get into the interface needed to erase your drive. You may have to hit the preboot F1 or F2 key to get into the BIOS to change the boot order to get your system to boot from the CD first. You will have successfully done this if you see the flashing message "press any key to boot from CD"
If Windows is allowed to boot to the OS you will have no way to continue your formatting.

by Former member

Killdisk:
http://www.killdisk.com/
It does a very good job, so good that if you use it you will not be able to go back and retrieve your data. Download it and bur to disk, re-boot your computer with the disk in and select "one pass" option, this will take around 3 to four hours, but once done you can then re-load on any operating system you like. :)

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by lei fan

You gonna have the drivers ready for XP though if the PC is not originally for XP but Vita

by Former member

Sometimes you can use the drivers from the motherboard disk, even if they are for Vista.
Believe me i have done this many a times. Though sometimes it can come un-stuck especially when it comes to laptops. :)
But then when you are in the computer business you ALWAYS look forward. So if you want to change system software read up on it first. :)
Be prepared that's my moto. :)

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by oh smeg

http://www.dban.org/

Will work with most computers except the ones that require a SATA Driver if you have a SATA HDD that is.

If you need a SATA Driver use the Windows Install Disc and when you are asked to setup the new OS chose to Format the HDD before the install process starts.

Col

by lloyd.earle

i don't think it is the hard drive because we just received 8 pc's and all of them are doing the same thing. also i spoke to someone else in IT and he's having the same problem at home.

by shhite

Did you get these new? And are you using the recovery disk or just an XP disk?

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