On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Winterlight wrote:
This will overwrite the first 50 MB of the drive with zero's, wiping out any
partitions, the MBR, and the first 50MB of the drive (which is generally where
the beginning of the diagnostic partition is)
Then proceed as normal.
Christopher Fisk
Seagate's free Powertools will do that ... but then what? How would I restore
the MBR and make it bootable? By Booting off the XP CD and attempting a repair
like Win2K
No, you would have to just reinstall windows from scratch. My method is
completely data-destructive.
Christopher Fisk
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