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Remove Vista, Load Linux
Name: Opendedo Date: January 22, 2008 at 21:02:11 Pacific OS: Vista CPU/Ram: AMD\Intel\Intel Product: Toshiba.Satillite
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Have Satilitte model A135-54467 with Toshiba\Vista OS. Want to Zero the HDD and install Linux. Have tried partition Magic and Killdisk in effort. Neither program will load! Tried to push it out with a linux distro but no luck. It's evident no DOS based program will work nor a Linux overwrite What is the solution a new HDD? Thanks in advance.
Name: jefro Date: January 22, 2008 at 22:18:37 Pacific
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What happens?
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.
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Response Number 2
Name: WebsWonder Date: January 23, 2008 at 00:52:07 Pacific
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Newish Laptops have SATA Controllers for the hard drives, maybe ensure that the BIOS has set the SATA access to IDE Mode, then MS-DOS software will recognize? Afaik SATA Controllers need Drivers in SATA Mode......
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Response Number 3
Name: The_Oracle Date: January 23, 2008 at 02:07:17 Pacific
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make sure your boot priority is set to CDROM first.
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Response Number 4
Name: larryf215 Date: January 23, 2008 at 12:27:39 Pacific
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since you are willing to lose vista anyway, why not try creating a partition for linux and dual booting.
larry
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Response Number 5
Name: xjlittle Date: January 27, 2008 at 07:44:21 Pacific
Use the parted application to destroy the partition. You may also need to use a DOS boot disk and run fdisk /mbr at the prompt. The rescue cd is your best bet though.
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