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Old 12-25-2006, 05:26 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Exclamation Format your HDD with Notepad

Format your HDD with Notepad

Let's see how we can format HDDs, delete boot.ini etc with notepad. Note 1: This will format your HDD or delete your boot.ini without any warning. Use it at your own risk.
Note 2: Use only 0 & 1 and not the commands (for example format c
Note 3: After save the txt file you will have a name.exe file. To use it just double click on it and it will open a window and start the command you entered.

1)Open the notepad and write this:
01001011000111110010010101010101010000011111100000

and then save it as name.exe

This will format the C:/ drive.

You can use and other codes too.
For command "format c:\ /Q/X"
put:
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011000110011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000

For command "format d:\ /Q/X"
put:
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011001000011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000

For command "format a:\ /Q/X"
put:
01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011000010011101001011100
0010000000101111010100010010111101011000

For command "del /F/S/Q c:\boot.ini"
put:
01100100011001010110110000100000001011110100011000 101111010100110010111101010001
00100000011000110011101001011100011000100110111101 101111011101000010111001101001
0110111001101001
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which hd is safe to format??? so that xp will still run??
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which hd is safe to format??? so that xp will still run??

Please start a new thread for something like that.

And normally windows is install on the C:\ drive, but if you format ALL DATA IS LOST on that drive, if you are formating in windows it would pop up a error if you try to format the drive that is running windows right now.
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