how easy for win 7 to install on a newly wiped harddrive

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pedenski

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ill be donating my old acer laptop and planning to use "DBAN" to wipe entirely my harddrive and then re-install a new windows.

last time i wiped a harddrive, i used "killdisk" which i had problems later on because it could not install my windows XP, it needed a special driver on the installer.

was kinda wondering how windows 7 would be able to solve this "driver" requirement when a hard drive is been 'wiped' not 'reformat'.

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there should be no need to use DBAN to wipe a hard disk except to totally erase any confidential data

Unless you had Linux on the Laptop. Windows sometimes can not re partition a hard disk which has a Linux (UNIX) master boot sector

Many laptops have a hidden recovery partition at the start of the disk and often the recovery images are on D: (common with Toshiba) (which would have the required driver)

Windows Vista & 7 (but not XP) can do a destructive (data wiping) Format (eg not a quick format)

XP often fails to install on modern hardware as it needs a floppy disk containing a Hard disk controller driver
If Hard disk AHCI mode is disabled in the BIOS this problem can be avoided.

Regards
Mike Barnes
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Hi

there should be no need to use DBAN to wipe a hard disk except to totally erase any confidential data

Unless you had Linux on the Laptop. Windows sometimes can not re partition a hard disk which has a Linux (UNIX) master boot sector

Many laptops have a hidden recovery partition at the start of the disk and often the recovery images are on D: (common with Toshiba) (which would have the required driver)

Windows Vista & 7 (but not XP) can do a destructive (data wiping) Format (eg not a quick format)

XP often fails to install on modern hardware as it needs a floppy disk containing a Hard disk controller driver
If Hard disk AHCI mode is disabled in the BIOS this problem can be avoided.

Regards
Mike Barnes
 
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