zentara wrote:
Joakim Schramm wrote:
A freind of mine just called me, she had got a computer from her father, but at boot up, after HD, CD, CPU data displayed etc verified it halt at a point saying:
"Verifying DMI pool data...." and ther it stays, no way to come futher. Never heard about DMI, anyone have a hint of what this can be?
Joakim
Mine does the same thing . . .
What operating system, windows?
And I use Linux.
DMI is probably some program left over from her father's use. There are so many programs that unknowledgable new users will run on their machines because they are afraid to disturb the system. Probably some anti-virus program checking the system at bootup, but the data got erased and the program hangs.
My motherboard and hard drive have never seen Windows. It's part of the motherboard.
Try removing all non-essential lines from autoexec.bat.
It is also good practice, when getting an unknown used hard drive, to do a format c: /U .
/U is unconditional format - bypasses the "Are you sure you're not an idiot?" question.
The /U will write "f"'s or zeros over the disk to completely wipe it.
All DOS (and Linux) formats write the byte F0 in the data area of the drive. If you use the /Q option, this step is not done.
Some windows software protection schemes are now writing unremovable files or fragments to disk, which can only be removed with a /U format.
I bet the /Q will take care of it as it is similar to mkdosfs - it creates the FAT, which rewrites the cluster free list making the entire drive available. George
I think they do something like mark a portion of the disk as bad, so normal formats don't remove it. Or some similar low-level trick.
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