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Post by t-bob on Oct 16, 2009 17:07:20 GMT -5
I have a Toshiba Portege that I am returning and need to erase everything from the hard drive. It has Vista Business and I can't figure out how to format/reformat before I return it.
Impossible to get to DOS, at least for this guy, and don't know how to do it within the confines of Vista.
Should I just send it up in a hot air balloon with an address sticker for Tiger Direct attached?
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Post by RickW on Oct 16, 2009 17:15:45 GMT -5
Is there not a start button, and then a 'run' choice? If you have that, type 'cmd' for a command, and you'll get a dos box.
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Post by Fingerplucked on Oct 16, 2009 17:18:02 GMT -5
Listen to Rick, not to me. Just ignore me. But if you were listening to me, I would have asked if it came with a restore disk.
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Post by Russell Letson on Oct 16, 2009 17:35:19 GMT -5
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Post by bamfiles on Oct 16, 2009 17:52:42 GMT -5
Did the machine come with a Vista CD? From what I've just read, you need to have a bootable CD because Microsoft put in protections so as not to reformat the C drive while Vista is booted from the C drive. I'm not familiar with the Toshiba but the idea is to boot from the Vista CD and then start into the installation until it gets to the point of formatting the system drive, let it format and then quit the installation. That was the simplest way in NT too but of course, I had the installation disk at the time. You can probably do it from an XP installation CD too.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Oct 17, 2009 22:33:08 GMT -5
Tbob, got a drill? hard drives are cheap.
Mike
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Post by t-bob on Oct 18, 2009 0:04:30 GMT -5
Sent it back. Finally figured out hoe to wipe it clean. Pain in the butt. How about this b-ball game? Coupla good teams.
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Post by timfarney on Oct 18, 2009 6:31:38 GMT -5
End the pain and suffering. Replace it with a Mac.
Tim
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