Topic: Format Laptop Hdd
I have a 60Gig LAPTOP HDD that is formatted for NTFS and I want to format it as FAT file system.....Any ideas??? I have tried Acronis migrate easy and others with NO success...How can I do this??? Thank you for your help.
- Jaak
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Re: Format Laptop Hdd
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/download/file/wipeout
put this on a windows 98 bootdisk, and use it
the description on the site should be changed, this tool does no more than wipe partition table in one move
the readme in it was re-written by your truly...
WARNING
The use of WIPEOUT can and will result in the loss of ALL data on your hard drive.
This tool sets a harddisk with a blank table, with all partitions gone off it.
You will not see remainders of bootstrap calls left by antivirus or other utilities.
Traces of overlay are gone too.
It does it really fast, and in one step.
DIRECTIONS for use with a single drive
1- Unzip file
2- Copy WIPEOUT to a Win9x boot disk
3- Boot with Win9x disk
4- At the A:\> type "wipeout c: /nq /np" (no quotes)
/nq = no queries - you will not be asked if you are sure.
/np = no partitions - this will overwrite the MBR
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Maybe you want to use this in a machine with more than one hard disk...
Wipeout has a little peculiarity.
the hard disk fdisk /status reports as drive 1 is called C: by wipeout.
(no matter what letters drive 1 actually contains)
the hard disk fdisk /status reports as drive 2 is called D: by wipeout.
(no matter what letters drive 2 actually contains)
1- Unzip file
2- Copy WIPEOUT to a Win9x boot disk
3- Boot with Win9x disk
4- FDISK /STATUS
make a note of the numbers the harddisks have been given, and the drive letters the partitions on the harddisks have been assigned.
5- exit fdisk
As noted, the NUMBERS FDISK gave correspond with LETTERS in WIPEOUT
C: is drive 1
D: is drive 2
E: is drive 3
F: is drive 4
LET us suppose you want to zap the partitions off harddisk 2
6- At the A:\> type "wipeout d: /nq /np" (no quotes)
/nq = no queries - you will not be asked if you are sure.
/np = no partitions - this will overwrite the MBR
Just a reminder, for drives larger than 64 Gigabyte, use the updated fdisk.
The answer was 42?
Kind regards, Jaak.
Kind regards, Jaak.
- Jaak
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Re: Format Laptop Hdd
updated fdisk, that is fdisk found in millenium floppy.
edit;
if you want to use drive manufactor's diskmanager, and do not know the make of the drive, I can recommend another little tool
DUGIDE
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/download/s … management
this will tell you the maker and a lot more
you can then go to their website, and get a disk manager, which will work a lot faster than fdisk and format..
Last edited by jtdoom (2007-01-07 00:32:32)
The answer was 42?
Kind regards, Jaak.
Kind regards, Jaak.
Re: Format Laptop Hdd
Allright....I knew this was the place to get help....and I registered on cybertechhelp, too 1 Thank you very much !!!
- Jaak
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Re: Format Laptop Hdd
Day before yesterday I had to kill an XP bootloader in a machine that got really bust up.
Both Hard disk drives were stamped active and system after the user had attempted format on his systemdrive(s), and traces of wrong letters and where memory dump had to go, or where where "hibernate file" was, and the swapfile had had some letter too.
This had to be cleaned.
A boot floppy could do it.
(my custom 98se Boot CD can do this too.)
It was actually more than 2 ys since I last used the tool. (I used it almost weekly way back.)
wipe two Mbr/Embr in a linux/Xp/98se boot machine what had two HDD and five "drives".
Data loss was not an issue.
knoppix GRUB can do this, but that little tool did it in no time flat.
boot, wipeout C:
then wipeout D:
and then a DriverPacks unattended with hotfixes. 
56 minutes
Last edited by jtdoom (2007-06-01 14:40:39)
The answer was 42?
Kind regards, Jaak.
Kind regards, Jaak.