[NBLUG/talk] Dell Latitude - Erase HDD

Tim Preston timp at sonic.net
Wed Mar 9 16:52:02 PST 2005


Just a reminder...

There are a couple of linux boot disks that will access the W2K 
partition and allow you to change the Admin password.

Tim

Lincoln Peters wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 12:53 -0800, Mark Street wrote:
> 
>>A client has a Dell Latitude Win2000 box that was locked by its previous owner 
>>and would like to install his own OS on it.  Problem is no CD or peripherals.
>>
>>we have several options.
>>1. USB floppy
>>2. USB Thumb drive
>>3. USB CD-ROM
>>
>>Should I just smoke it with fdisk from a Tom's RBT floppy?
>>Saving the data is not an issue.  What would be the quickest and painless.
> 
> 
> Tom's RTBT is probably the simplest option, since you said that you
> don't need to save the data, and it's faster to download and write a
> boot floppy than a Knoppix CD (although if you already have a Knoppix
> CD, it should work just as well, and you wouldn't need to make a new
> boot floppy).
> 
> However, I don't know how well Tom's RTBT supports USB mass storage
> devices (I didn't get my first USB mass storage device until a few years
> after I last used Tom's RTBT), so you may be forced to use Knoppix
> instead (which should support USB devices just fine, although I've never
> tried to boot Knoppix from one).
> 
> 
> Either way, fdisk should work fine.  And if it doesn't, there's always
> "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda" followed by fdisk...
> 
> ---
> Lincoln Peters
> <sampln at sbcglobal.net>
> 
> Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.  There might be a
> law against it by that time.
> 
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