I have heared that formatting reduces the life of harddisk. Let us suppose I have a virus on my harddisk or my windows is curropted. I want to erase all data from my harddisk including hiddden folder and files like System Volume Information without formatting it. So that I can install windows what should I do? I have NTFS volume. Do u know any live CD linux which supports NTFS filesysystem? I think it will help me to erase data from my HDD.
I want to install, i dont care if its live cd or not, this computer has one hard disk thats 2gb and one thats 1gb.
Befor you ask, its 9 years old, and runs great with win 98se.
I want a GUI, not a command shell.
I have a 60GB FAT32 harddisk partition on a dual boot (Windows XP/Win98) PC. It has worked fine for 2 years. Now, following an improper shutdown and the resulting WinXP ‘checking disks for errors’ screen on startup, Windows XP can’t even read the volume name and asks if I want to format the drive when I try to open it. Properties dialog shows Filesystem: RAW. However, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the partition as far as Windows 98 is concerned (verifies fine with scandisk), and Linux Live CDs such as SLAX also open the partition with no trouble. There is nothing wrong with the physical disk or XP drivers, since other partitions on the drive are fine even from XP. Is there any way to ‘fix’ the disc, i.e. persuade XP that it is fine, short of backing up everything and reformatting (not easy since I don’t have any large HDDs to hand so I’d have to use a stack of DVDs).
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I am very good with computer but new to linux
I have Knoppix
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I bought an old machine from a yard sale for $5. Unfortunately, the guy who I’d bought it from’s company had wiped the hard disk in some way and had left the physical hard drive clanging around in the case, unattached to anything.
So I re-attach the hard drive in the right places and screw it into the case. I got it booting into Win XP install mode, but it wanted me to insert an install CD. I didn’t have one at the time (and still don’t) so I installed Ubuntu from a Live CD.
However, my question doesn’t require knowledge of Linux or Ubuntu… I just want to know if I can somehow get a copy of Windows XP and install it into Virtualbox.
Think of it this way. I have a product key, but no CD. How can I obtain a copy of Windows XP Home Edition without having to buy another product key?
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