Hello,
I was wondering if it was possible to re-use an old hard drive which resulted in the
"A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" error. I am 90% sure the reason for this error is because I tried to install XP over the top of a Linux installation and everything went rubbish.
Basically I want to re-use the hard drive, but have no interest in retrieving any of the old files. Is there any way I can wipe the hard drive completely, to get rid of any Linux partitioning, as well as any Windows files that might have settled in, or is the 'disk read error' the end of the drive?
Please bear in mind that I have no way to use slave or master methods, as I have no other working hard drives, but i do have an xp installation cd etc.
Regards
Joe
I was wondering if it was possible to re-use an old hard drive which resulted in the
"A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" error. I am 90% sure the reason for this error is because I tried to install XP over the top of a Linux installation and everything went rubbish.
Basically I want to re-use the hard drive, but have no interest in retrieving any of the old files. Is there any way I can wipe the hard drive completely, to get rid of any Linux partitioning, as well as any Windows files that might have settled in, or is the 'disk read error' the end of the drive?
Please bear in mind that I have no way to use slave or master methods, as I have no other working hard drives, but i do have an xp installation cd etc.
Regards
Joe