From: STeve Andre' (andres_at_msu.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 03:28:16 EDT
I haven't been following this thread.
Is there interest in something that will KILL a partition table outright? I
could give you about 7 lines of assembly code that you can enter into
DOS's debug program which will render any disk unbootable by smashing
the partition table flat.
--STeve Andre'
At 03:15 PM 10/1/00 -0400, Bruce Markowitz wrote:
>I have a utility that goes on a floppy and will remove ANY partition I
>have ever encountered. If you get really stuck I'll try to find a way to
>upload it to you (but you need to create a bootable W95 floppy to use
>it).
>
>James H. E. Maugham wrote:
> >
> > I originally sent this message to Bill, who has tried to help (thanks
> Bill), but
> > I'm still sort of stuck and thought I would throw it out for possible
> help from
> > you wonderful folks on the list.
> >
> > I've got PM 3 through 5 available, so if anyone comes up with a use for
> that
> > here, please let me know. Jane??
> >
> > Worst case scenario is to borrow an outboard PCMCIA drive holder from
> Bill and
> > attempt to reformat from one of my W2K 600's.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > James the Puzzled!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James H. E. Maugham [mailto:CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 2:45 PM
> > To: penzance_at_gate.net
> > Subject: A Senior Moment
> >
> > Bill,
> >
> > HELLLLLLLLPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > I'm at the point where I'm beginning to tear my hair out! System -
> TP755CD Pent
> > with 2.1GB drive formatted in NTFS with W2K which WON'T start! Gives me
> a "The
> > display driver failed to initialize" warning and shuts down on a BSOD
> telling me
> > to call my Sysadmin!
> >
> > W98 bootdisk, of course, won't recognize the NTFS drive and I can't
> seem to get
> > anything to run from the floppy with the exception of PartMagic
> bootdisk, but
> > that won't convert the drive back to FAT32, nor does it recognize the
> drive from
> > a DOS prompt. I've got 7 other machine here running W2K, but none of
> the boot
> > disks I've built from the CD ERU will let me access the HD on the 755CD.
> >
> > At this point I'd be happy if I could _just_ format the HD back to FAT16 or
> > FAT32 as I intend to re-load W95 on it. But there are a couple of files
> on it
> > I'd like to have if possible, but they're not critical.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Warm regards,
> >
> > James
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