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Silverfoxesclub-digest In this issue:
-Help for Computer Problems
---------------------------------------------------------------------- The easiest way to remove all data from a hard drive is to use the Hard drive format disk that came with the drive..if you bought the system complete you might not have this...so you need to look inside the computer at the hard drive and find out who makes it and what model you have....then go to the makers web site and find the Hard Drive Installation Utility program...this program is for making partitions and making them "active" for booting..it will also totally rid the drive of any format...just follow the instructions and its a breeze....Goodluck!
JohnM
Sure guys;
John/morfme Reply from John M GRS replies: While the spirit of this reply may be absolutely correct, there are details in it which could be misleading. FDISK and FORMAT are two entirely independent utilities. FDISK is used to create partitions on a hard disk, and FORMAT is used to format the partition once it has been created. The "Hard Drive Installation Utility" you're referring to is most likely a small piece of software which makes the entire capacity of the hard disk visible to machines which normally can't see beyond the 8Gb or 2Gb limit (depending on the age of the motherboard). This software resides in what's known as the "Master Boot Record", which is the first 448 bytes of very first sector on the hard disk. The remaining 64 bytes in this sector are used up by the partition table. The trouble is that Windows 2000 and Windows NT have a bootloader which *also* resides in the MBR. Therefore, this "Hard Drive Installation Utility" and Windows NT/2K are mutually exclusive. In other words, if Win2K is being used, there is no hard drive installation utility. Nor does Windows 2000 have a "Command line only" mode like Win9x, which means that the only way you can access Win2K's FDISK utility is by booting the machine in Win2K, in which case the system partition is in use and can't be deleted. Bang goes that idea. The only way this can be achieved with the least effort on the behalf of the user is if a system software developer slaps together a quick piece of software which plainly and simply wipes out the MBR and the partition table in one fell swoop. I have offered to do this and am awaiting the subscriber's reply.
Cheers, I have to agree with SGM or is it GMS (or some other TLA - ;-)), that using the W2K boot disks is one way or having another disk made. But I think there may be another way that you can do with your exsisting system and CD. Anyway, if you start a boot of your system and enter setup you should be able to (at least since your running W2K your system is probably fairly new) change the first boot device to the CD-ROM. Then put your Win 2K CD in the drive and boot. Start the text portion install and when it asks you what partition you want to install on highlight the NTFS partition and delete it. From there you should even be able to create a FAT partition that could be accessed from DOS or Windows98.
Have fun. Dear Gentlemen, thanks for all these prompt and enthusiastic relpies to my problem with Win2000. I am trying out the suggestions now and if you don't see me reporting how it goes within two days, that means I am stuck and I will get access to the list with my friends' computer. Thanks again for the advice. This is a wonderful list, with all warm and passionate members (although we have virus problem recently). I feel at home here.
Good luck to me.
Hey guys.. This is what is says about the pic...never had this problem before.
Thanks guys..
Dear guys, thanks for the advices and I finally know
the trick on changing partition format in W2K.
What I did in the past was trying to "re-partitition"
my hard drive from the bootdisk in the CD. Obviously
it didn't work because setup does not offer the chance
to "partition" the hard drive in FAT format again once
W2K is installed.
After calling for help on the list and you mentioned
about rebooting the drive from a floppy (well, I
haven't booted a computer with a floppy for a long
time and I forgot about it), I had a look into th CD
what is actually in the folder "Bootdisk".
Accidentally I found there are two files called
"Makeboot" & "Makebt32" (I don't know their
difference), which are for making bootdisks on floppy
disks. It loads the necessary data onto 4 floppy
disks.
By booting the computer with these disks, I was
offered the chance to re-partition the hard drive
again and I changed from NTFS to FAT32 now. More
important I can now completely erase all the data on
the hard drive and get it ready for installing Win9x.
Thanks again for your help.
Patrick
------------------------------ They finally released the ingredients in Viagra:
3%... Vitamin E
From what I know he is.
Who else would stand on stage
stick his ass out at the audience and say
the only thing this should be used for is shitting. (Biographical note: Gibson, born on January 3, 1956, in Peekskill, NY, USA, was the sixth of eleven children born to an American father and Australian mother. The family emigrated to Australia after Gibson's father, a railroad brakeman, won as a "Jeopardy!" contestant in 1964, in part because he wanted to avoid having his sons drafted into the Vietnam War. Mel Gibson has at least seven children of his own.)
"Ode to an Odious Homophobe"
Mel Gibson says ass
Seven kids he has sired;
I say that ol' Mel While I don't automatically think every male who disagrees with gays has issues, I think Mel's vociferousness says more about his struggles with being a man than being simply "against gays". He is cute... Eric
Note from Ben Boxer: Cute? "Handsome is as handsome does!"
John Reynolds If I'm not mistaken, Mel Gibson was also the producer, or at least the executive producer on that picture, and being retired from the motion picture business, I can tell you that it's ultimately the producer who says what goes into the picture and what doesn't. He hires and fires the screenwriter and the director (unless of course he happens to be doing either job himself). It's the producer's picture and he has the final say-so. It was Herr Gibson who had the heartfelt compassion to state publicly that AIDS stands for "Another Infected Dick Sucker."
Ethan in LA End of silverfoxesclub-digest V1 #233
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