You have to get your assistant to set your BIOS to boot off of the CD. Failing that try using the wipe drive program up there. It will fit on a floppy disk just fine. Just make sure the disk is bootable before you copy the files on to the diskette. David Ferrin Life is what happens after you've already made other plans. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Waqas Hussain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:16 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Darik's boot and nuke utility from Jaws users website
> Hi all, > > Apologies as it is not directly Jaws related. Basically, I am struggling > to > make the Darik's boot and nuke utility work with sighted assistance to > clean > out the hard disc of my old PC running Windows XP Pro. I have tried both > the > zip and ISO versions from "David's treasure" but can't make either of them > boot. The floppy disc version returns an error message that there is not > enough space on the floppy whereas the CD R version simply does not boot > from the BIAS. > > I wonder if some kind wizard could guide me or point out where I am going > wrong? > > Regards > > Waqas > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following address in order to contact the management team > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
