Windows 2000 - total cleaning without CD or floppy - is it possibl

[Guest]

I have a Compaq Deskpro that I am giving to someone else. However, I need to
completely de-partition and delete EVERYTHING that is on the hard drives.

However, the CD-ROM drive is not functioning (now you know why I'm giving it
away) and the BOOT setup does not give me the floppy drive as an available
boot drive?

Is there any other way to zap the 2 physical hard drives without booting to
floppy or CD?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I have a Compaq Deskpro that I am giving to someone else. However, I need
to
completely de-partition and delete EVERYTHING that is on the hard drives.

However, the CD-ROM drive is not functioning (now you know why I'm giving
it
away) and the BOOT setup does not give me the floppy drive as an available
boot drive?

Is there any other way to zap the 2 physical hard drives without booting
to
floppy or CD?

Thanks in advance!

Unless you can boot from something besides the hard drives, you can't run
any utilities on them to wipe them out - you'd essentially be asking the
disk to commit suicide. You could put the disks in another machine and do
whatever level of format / wipe you wished.

That said, check the BIOS to see whether you can change the boot sequence /
include the floppy in the boot sequence. I'd be amazed if you couldn't do
this.

Or, you might be able to boot from a USB floppy, depending on the
motherboard/BIOS.

 

[Stubby]

DBAN from sourceforge.org will do it nicely.