need emergency boot CD

21dealerdave21dealerdave Nicollet,MN
edited February 2007 in Science & Tech
Neighbor bought a used laptop. It needs to have HDD wiped clean and an OS installed. He wants to install his old Win2K OS.
Anyone know a good hard drive wiper and emergency boot CD?
Thanks for the info.

Comments

  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2007
    Ultimate Boot CD ought to do it. :)
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited February 2007
    for straight up hard drive wipe, you can't get much simpler than www.activestate.com 's killdisk
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2007
    DBAN is an excellent program for wiping HDDs in a snap.
  • 21dealerdave21dealerdave Nicollet,MN
    edited February 2007
    Thrax wrote:
    DBAN is an excellent program for wiping HDDs in a snap.

    I've used DBAN before and it worked well.

    Is it possible to download DBAN to a CD?
    I've used a 4 floppy disc emergency boot set after DBAN has run-- can the emergency boot set be transferred to a CD?

    I appreciate the help.
    Snowing in southern MN right now--brrrr!
  • 21dealerdave21dealerdave Nicollet,MN
    edited February 2007
    profdlp wrote:
    Ultimate Boot CD ought to do it. :)

    I followed the above link and downloaded it to my desktop. When I tried to extract the files a message box appeared: 7-Zip Diagnostic Message: ubcd34-basic.exe is not supported archive

    Any idea what this means and what should I do next?
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2007
    My guess would be that the file may be corrupt. Did you check it against either of the checksums provided? :scratch:

    To be honest, I have always just downloaded the .iso version, then burned it as an image. :)
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2007
    21dealerdave wrote:
    I've used DBAN before and it worked well.

    Is it possible to download DBAN to a CD?
    I've used a 4 floppy disc emergency boot set after DBAN has run-- can the emergency boot set be transferred to a CD?

    I appreciate the help.
    Snowing in southern MN right now--brrrr!


    Yeah, there's a link at the top of the main page to load it on a CD. :)
  • 21dealerdave21dealerdave Nicollet,MN
    edited February 2007
    Thrax wrote:
    Yeah, there's a link at the top of the main page to load it on a CD. :)

    Found the link!! Thanks much.
  • 21dealerdave21dealerdave Nicollet,MN
    edited February 2007
    profdlp wrote:
    My guess would be that the file may be corrupt. Did you check it against either of the checksums provided?

    I do not know how to check the dwnld against a checksum.
    By the way,,,, what is a checksum??
  • 21dealerdave21dealerdave Nicollet,MN
    edited February 2007
    Situation resolved! The Win2K disk automatically formatted the HDD and proceeded to install correctly.
    Thanks for the help everyone!
    Case closed.
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