re: windows xp Wednesday, October 3, 2001 at 9:47 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Larry (9 messages posted) On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 5:12 am, leo54 wrote: >I have tryed every thing I know to format my HHD but still can not becouse it's got >windows xp on it, I dont have a low leval format in my cmos and I've tryed fdisking >the drive with no luck, I even tryed format disk in ztwin, but still no luck, has >eny one got eny throught's. > >leo Try This***This debug routine is used to erase all partition information on the hard disk drive and is only recommend for experienced users or users who are unable to delete the partition information through fdisk. A:\>debug -F 200 L1000 0 -A CS:100 xxxx:0100 MOV AX,301 xxxx:0103 MOV BX,200 xxxx:0106 MOV CX,1 xxxx:0109 MOV DX,80 (80 for hd 0 or 81 for hd 1 ) xxxx:010C INT 13 xxxx:010E INT 20 xxxx:0110 -g Program terminated normally -q Once this debug routine is complete reboot computer and all partitions should be erased. Before anything can be installed back onto the computer you must run Fdisk and recreate the partition as well as format the hard disk drive. Written in response to: windows xp (leo54: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 5:12 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] windows xp (leo54: Tue, Sep 25, 2001, 5:12 am) re: windows xp (TonyW: Tue, Sep 25, 2001, 6:59 am) re: windows xp (leo54: Tue, Sep 25, 2001, 9:41 pm) re: windows xp (the hatch: Sun, Sep 30, 2001, 12:03 am) re: windows xp (Larry: Wed, Oct 3, 2001, 9:45 am) Formatting Windows XP (Jeremy: Wed, Sep 26, 2001, 10:03 am) re: Formatting Windows XP (blitZkRiEG: Wed, Nov 21, 2001, 7:56 am) re: windows xp (Larry: Wed, Oct 3, 2001, 9:47 am) re: windows xp (Greg: Wed, Oct 3, 2001, 11:46 am) re: windows xp (Ante: Sat, Oct 6, 2001, 9:50 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum