Re: How do I reformat my hard drive with XP installed?

From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe@mvps.org)
Date: 04/02/03


From: "Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 18:26:02 -0800


If that is all it does, you could recover from that with "fixmbr" and
"fixboot" from the Recovery Console.

-- 
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows
"Jammer" <jaime.steinhauer@logicorp.ca> wrote in
message news:064a01c2f89e$fd66a900$3401280a@phx.gbl...
> ZapDisk is a great utility, it fits on a boot disk.  When
> you run it, it wipes the MBR and track 0.  You have to
> reformat the drive.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >And how do I clear off all info on disk, (government
> >format/wipe)?
> >.
> > 


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