I need to wipe one of my hard drives

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  1. zaku49

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    were could I get a tool or program? It has to be bootable.
     
    zaku49, Jul 19, 2006
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    do a fdisk using win98 bootdisk, delete partition, make a new partition than format.
     
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    right......

    Thanks for the help I just got a program and did it.
     
    zaku49, Jul 19, 2006
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    teach & learn
     
    ddp, Jul 20, 2006
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    Sniping_G Regular member

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    umm ddp what is a fdiscand can it whip outthe hwhole drive with out usinga boot cd? CAuse i have a problem where i cant even reinstall or go to my destop so would this wrk???
     
    Sniping_G, Jul 20, 2006
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    fdisk is a dos command. you use it to delete or make a partion or both. is on a win98 or me boot floppy disk or bootable win98/me cd.
     
    ddp, Jul 20, 2006
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    Sniping_G Regular member

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    can u give me a link to this program plz
     
    Sniping_G, Jul 20, 2006
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    ireland, Jul 20, 2006
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  9. Sniping_G

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    so can that bootdisc wipe out the harddrive??
     
    Sniping_G, Jul 20, 2006
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    it will allow you to format your hard drive, preparing it to put a new copy of Windows on the drive or use it for storage purposes as a slave/backup drive.
     
    Auslander, Jul 20, 2006
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    ohhhk well going 2 my friends house and putting all this on a flopply,cause my cpu doesnt have 1 then i cn finally have 2 computers:D
     
    Sniping_G, Jul 21, 2006
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