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re: Darik's Boot And Nuke CD
Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 8:16 am
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Posted by Jeff (4 messages posted)

Thanks for the info, but at this time.... I can't log into this laptop, it comes up with a sign on screen and I have no log in info..... Any other suggestions???

On Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 7:36 am, DNA wrote:
>Make a bootable CD with Darik's
>Boot And Nuke on it. Download the .iso and burn it to disc with Nero (or even
>a freeware CD burning program such as
>CDBurnerXP).
>

>When the disc is burned, insert into the CD drive. Check to see that the disc is
>read in Explorer. Shut down the laptop. Restart it, quickly press the "F12" key when
>first booting (specific instruction for a Dell Latitude) and you will get the option
>to boot from the CD drive. This will load Boot And Nuke from the CD-R.
>

>If your laptop doesn't have a CD drive, to format the drive you'd have to remove
>the drive and temporarily install it in a desktop computer, or plug it into another
>computer with a USB 2.0-to-IDE adapter.
>

>----------------------------------------------------------

Written in response to:
Darik's Boot And Nuke CD (DNA: Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 7:36 am)

Responses to this message:
Booting from CD bypasses the hard drive's O.S. (DNA: Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 9:29 am)

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Darik's Boot And Nuke CD (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 7:36 am)

re: Darik's Boot And Nuke CD (Jeff: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 8:16 am)

Booting from CD bypasses the hard drive's O.S. (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 9:29 am)

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