Hi, I hope someone can help me. I have a tecra 8100 and last week my
daughter dropped one of my boots on it(I have heavy boots!) and since
then when I turn it on it says there was a problem starting windows,
and won't go any further. So, I bought a new laptop and I sold the
broken one to an aquaintance. My problem is I need to erase the hard
rive before I send it to him, and it won't get through erasing. I
bought a drive scrubber at office max to use. Please let me know what
I need to do! Thank you
Lorena

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:39:19 -0000, no@spam.invalid (kaylis_mom)
wrote:

>Hi, I hope someone can help me. I have a tecra 8100 and last week my
>daughter dropped one of my boots on it(I have heavy boots!) and since
>then when I turn it on it says there was a problem starting windows,
>and won't go any further. So, I bought a new laptop and I sold the
>broken one to an aquaintance. My problem is I need to erase the hard
>rive before I send it to him, and it won't get through erasing. I
>bought a drive scrubber at office max to use. Please let me know what
>I need to do! Thank you
>Lorena
Hmmm, windows won't start and the drive won't erase. Sure sounds like
the drive is the problem. Pull the drive out and run over it with a
car or something.

Pull the drive and measure it without any speical framing to hold it in
the system. Buy a USB enclosure that it fits into and mount it up on
your new machine and verify that nothing is readable. You can also try
reformatting it and running an erase utility against it.

Phil Sherman



kaylis_mom wrote:
> Hi, I hope someone can help me. I have a tecra 8100 and last week my
> daughter dropped one of my boots on it(I have heavy boots!) and since
> then when I turn it on it says there was a problem starting windows,
> and won't go any further. So, I bought a new laptop and I sold the
> broken one to an aquaintance. My problem is I need to erase the hard
> rive before I send it to him, and it won't get through erasing. I
> bought a drive scrubber at office max to use. Please let me know what
> I need to do! Thank you
> Lorena
>