Hard Drive Reformatt for Dell

ucdaone2nv

Good marning, I have a toshiba hard drive I took out of an old government Dell computer. My friend has a new Dell lattitude E6510. I took his hard drive out and put in the one form my old Dell (the keyboard on mine stopped working) I tried to do a re-install and Re-formatt from a dell windows XP disk that came with the Dell, by hitting F12 and booting from CD, however it does not work. Why not? and how can I re-formatt the hard drive to get aroound an old administrator password?

primesuspect

If you want to completely wipe a drive, I recommend killdisk.

After you've zeroed the drive, you should definitely be able to install XP from that CD.

ucdaone2nv

primesuspect wrote:

If you want to completely wipe a drive, I recommend killdisk.

After you've zeroed the drive, you should definitely be able to install XP from that CD.

Thanks, I'll try it and get back to you.