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Geek Culture / How to reformat a locked HD

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Crazy Programmer
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Posted: 16th Dec 2008 01:16
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The school gave me a laptop last year but it was only ment to run one installed program. The laptop is fairly new and runs Windows xp. The problem is there is no CD drive and it dosnt like to read the USB. So im having a hard time trying to wipe it clean so i can do what ever i want on it.

On start up there are no F buttons to re-format either.

Any ideas?


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Posted: 16th Dec 2008 01:22
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no usb huh? Just won't read it in windows, or is it a hardware issue? If it's a windows issue, simply plugin an external cd drive and away you go.

If it's a hardware issue, you can remove the hard drive and plug it into a working computer, either with an external drive case, or if it's sata, just plug it into a sata port on a working computer. You can then install linux on that drive, you'll need to google for instructions on installing linux on an external hard drive.

You have very limited options if USB doesn't work and you can't plugin a cd drive.

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