HD reformat from BIOS

[Hex]

Tiph has yet another question for the CAG geniuses-

With our tech lab cleaning out all of its old hardware, I managed to snag a Western Digital 7.5G hard drive for personal use. Now, it has Win2000 and quite a lot of other school-related information on it. To actually log in, you need to be connected ot the network, which I cannot at my house. I can't format the thing at school either because all run/important commands are blocked from student use. When it starts up, I can access the setup/bios page, and I was wondering if I can reformat the HD through these commands.

 

[maxflight]

if you have a boot diskette you can just use that and boot to DOS, then format

 

[gdw3877]

Just download a program called active@killdisk and wipe it clean, then start over from scratch and do what you want with it.

 

[Rynoceros]

What's wrong with attaching it as a secondary hard drive, loading windows from his main hard drive, and formatting from there? He could still use killdisk or whatever formatting method he wants.

 

[Quackzilla]

Because, to prevent theft, it can only be used when connected to the network.