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bugtussellmom> I'm guessing there is some way to destroy them so the data can't be read?
A cheap and easy way of producing satisfactory results, destroying hard drives, is to drill a couple holes...

For your Dell you need to use the "Reinstallation CD". That would partition your hard drive the way it came first from Dell, and it will install the Operating System it came with the Computer.
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If windows 2000 is in a different partition than windows xp pro, log into xp and go to that partition which will show in another letter. Right click it and format.

Then you have to modify the...

Copy and paste anything that you have saved in C as yours, usually in C:\Document and Settings\<UserNameHere>, to F:\>.
You can transfer My Documents to F:\
But you can not transfer anything...

>Sounds easy enough. Let me get right on that.
Sarcasm statement that sets the note of the rest of the blog article.

>I think Mark Shuttleworth should pay for it--seriously. He has the money....

This, I believe, was the simplest solution (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/EN-US/) to your problem before.
However, since you reformatted, it will not help, nevertheless, I tell you so you...

Since I don't know Windows scripting in vbs, and having a version of the GNU Minimalistic (MSYS) (http://www.mingw.org/) installed, it occurred to me to use what I know.
rm -r SL2007Ext?

That did...

I am aware that RMDIR /S /Q will delete any directory in a quiet way even if it has content.
However, it does not allow the use of wild char for the removal in batch mode.
How can I accomplish the...

Thank you very much. It worked.

What would be the command in the XP cmd.exe to connect and access a smb shared
directory from another XP box?
Thank you.