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08-29-2008, 08:14 AM
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Unable to format harddrive
Good morning everyone,
Recently I aquired some sort of virus/malware on my harddrive that is giving me a tremendous headache. I've decided to format the hard drive on my hp pavilion notebook, but am unable to. I believe they have a hidden partition that does not allow me to do so. Also, I have tried booting up with my windows xp cd in the drive, however, during setup it says that there are no hard drives detected. Any suggestions? Many thanks and have a great day all! |
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08-29-2008, 09:47 AM
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08-29-2008, 10:22 AM
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If you just want to completely FORMAT including recovery partitions and everything, GParted works well:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ You can use the LiveCD option and boot to it. Also, do you have the XP disc that came with the HP or is a just a standard XP install disc?
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08-29-2008, 10:23 AM
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Many thanks, I'll try that out and post the results.
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08-29-2008, 12:52 PM
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If you do not have a set of HP recovery media - you must make the set before blowing the recovery partition away.
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08-29-2008, 02:58 PM
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08-29-2008, 06:46 PM
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The XP disc will work but you will need install the HP drivers for your particular model.
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08-29-2008, 09:28 PM
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I would STILL recommend that you create the media. You only get ONE chance.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/f...name=c00608578 |
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