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perillian

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need help wiping harddrive windows 2000
« on: September 01, 2007, 07:04:18 PM »
so yes, i'm trying to wipe or reformat my computer and i'm too noobish to know what things i should do. not only that but dos is giving me issues saying that a required paramater is missing. can someone please help me?
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    Re: need help wiping harddrive windows 2000
    « Reply #1 on: September 01, 2007, 07:33:08 PM »
    Try a tool like DBAN or something.
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    patio

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    Re: need help wiping harddrive windows 2000
    « Reply #2 on: September 01, 2007, 08:17:16 PM »
    Put the Win2K cd in and re-boot....
    Follow the prompts to create a new partition and install the OS...
    Pretty straightforward.

    Any questions let us know...
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    perillian

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    Re: need help wiping harddrive windows 2000
    « Reply #3 on: September 02, 2007, 09:10:35 AM »
    Quote from: patio on September 01, 2007, 08:17:16 PM
    Put the Win2K cd in and re-boot....
    Follow the prompts to create a new partition and install the OS...
    Pretty straightforward.

    Any questions let us know...

    Right, so I can't find my Win2k cd, do you think there is anywhere I could find another one or am I pretty much out of luck?
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    patio

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    Re: need help wiping harddrive windows 2000
    « Reply #4 on: September 02, 2007, 09:58:23 AM »
    How are you going to re-install without an OS CD ? ?
    You could check on eBay for Win2K...
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    perillian

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    Re: need help wiping harddrive windows 2000
    « Reply #5 on: September 02, 2007, 11:01:21 AM »
    lol that was my next guess. Is there anywhere else aside from Ebay that I may find a Win2k disk??
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    Re: need help wiping harddrive windows 2000
    « Reply #6 on: September 02, 2007, 12:50:59 PM »
    Check the local bookstores...they may be able to order you a copy if they don't have it.
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    ryankend

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    Re: need help wiping harddrive windows 2000
    « Reply #7 on: September 02, 2007, 03:42:37 PM »
    BOOTIT OS MANAGER CAN FORMAT YOUR HDD
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    Re: need help wiping harddrive windows 2000
    « Reply #8 on: September 02, 2007, 06:13:35 PM »
    There are many tools he can format with...there are only a few choices to install an OS.
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