need screenshots of a computer being reformatted, anyone know where to get them?

[DAM]

like the topic says, i hope someone can help me out. i am doing a presentation on how to format your computer and stuff like that, i need a couple of screenshots of the dos prompt during fdisk and format and help will me greatly appreciated.







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[DAM]

morning bump









dam(yelp)

 

[cxim]

Dam, run fdisk & format in a dos window.

just don't actually run any of the options that actually screw with your HD.

fdisk screen shot

Is that the real reason you want this ? or is it for a joke ?

PS: I just did this one so it is not a big deal...

here is a gif version uncropped

Thanks Ornery

 

[duragezic]

You can just take them yourself before actually going to ok to do the fdisk or format. Even if one wanted to do that, they couldn't take a screenshot since the screenshot would get erased.

 

[Ornery]

cxim's method should do what you want. Use the [Alt]+[Print Screen] buttons to save just the active window to the clipboard.

If you have an application that can save to the GIF format, use that. This shot is only 15KB because GIF compression really lends itself to pictures with large areas of the same color.

 

[ltk007]

If you had posted this two days ago I could've helped you. Now its too late my wipe is done

 

[Lord Evermore]

Get two computers, one with a video capture card, and an adapter for converting VGA signal to TV signal. Plug the adapter into the video output of the one you're going to format, then the output from the adapter into the input port of the capture card.

Run the TV/VCR software for the capture card (put it on whatever channel the converter outputs to), then boot the computer to be wiped. You should be getting the output from that computer into the video window on the other computer. (You can even make it full screen so it looks like a directly connected monitor!)

That may be a bit clunky and overkill, but with that setup, you could actually make a VIDEO of FDISKing, formatting, and installing an OS! (You'd have to stop before it tried to detect the monitor, since you wouldn't have one directly connected.)

 

[DAM]

thanks for all the help guys, this is what i needed, and no its not a joke its for a presentation for my tech writing class, however that joke idea would be pretty cool, ill think about it.

if anyone has any picuters of the format command specially when its actually formatting then that would be awesome.



evermore i do not have any computers to format at the moment thats why i asked if anyone had seen a site with the pics i was looking for.




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[cxim]

If you have a 2nd HD or partition in your system, you can do an actual format & take shots.

For a nominal fee, I will dig one out & make a couple.

 

[DAM]

i do have a couple of partitions but i cant give any of them up. hmmm.



3 hd

system 1
20: (c)win98se, (d)beos, (e)appz, (h)backups
10: (f)win2k

system 2

10: (c)win98se, linux



so you are saying i can move the stuff from any partition and reformat it withough affecting the other drives???


and tell me more about this fee...




dam()

 

[Wedesdo]

nominal fee? always trying to make money there, huh?

 

[cxim]

FEE ??? oh well, something like a firstborn daughter child or a 65 Mustang convertible with a new top, nothing elaborate...

Yes,.... you can move all data from a partition & reformat it without effect on the other partitions. Then move the data back.

This is pretty safe, as long as you are careful & don't reformat the wrong partition !!!

You cannot do this with Fdisk without grave risk !!!!

 

[DAM]

hmm, how about a nice human sacrifize and 23 cents sent to your swiss [/b]paypal[/b] account?







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[cxim]

OK, will see if I can dig one up & do a couple of snaps.

 

[DAM]

cool, so what type of sacrifise do you want? a virgin? perhaps a newborn? let me know, as for the money, can we stablish some sort of payment plan?






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[SpeedGod]

formatting a hard drive for a class presintation. I would love to be in that class.

 

[cxim]

sacrifice a virgin in my name & buy me a beer the next time I get to Texas.

formatstart

format in progress

label HD in Format

format done

and no damn laughs about the size of my HD !!!

I did you some fdisk screen shots too, in the same directory

named fdisk1.gif to fdisk5.gif

 

[ltk007]

wow, I was gonna do it, but I guess I don't have to now

 

[Lord Evermore]

I think my idea would be pretty damn nice for a prank...not worth the money though for me to get the VGA converter needed for it. Although...I do have a G400 dualhead...I wonder if the initial output on boot can be made done on the adapter to TV output...or if it only works on the second port...

 

[Rakkis]

Why don't you just format a floppy in an MS-DOS prompt window?

It looks just like formatting a hard drive except fot the drive letter

-_- Seriously guys... don't think so hard

 

[Lord Evermore]

You can't use FDISK on a floppy drive. DAM needed both FDISK and FORMAT screen shots.

 

[Mday]

if you really want me to, i can spare a partition... fdisk would suck though...

DAM, if you want me to, let me know... i'll just scrap some drive and stuff and capture DOS windows for ya....

 

[cxim]

The fdisk screen shots are there too, just not direct linked

 

[DAM]

thanks mday i already got all the ones i need.




thanks cxim.





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