[sjb007]

We have a few decent magnets at work, we use them for picking up tracks/bars on which mining machinery runs! Im sure they will do the trick very nicely.

Other nice opitons - A nice heavy lump hammer

[jimmiecu]

Thanks for some of the replies the one to delete the hal.dll file was great. i need some more and not ones with magnets hammers buildings or dynamite

can you dive me ones taht attack the systema nd stop the operating system working.
Thanks thanks thanks
jimmie

[KanoakaVirus]

Whats this project for exactly?

[Mike0001]

Infect it with a nasty virus. eg, Vista Anti-virus 2008

Install Linux over it.

I find that Microsoft themselves do a pretty good job at disabling Windoze, but does that count as destruction?

A nuclear bomb on Redmond?

[jimmiecu]

It for a 2nd year operating system in college and i am trying to learn it by asking and not by just copying so any help would be gretly appreciated
i have del the hal.dll diles on the vm ware and it worked a treat so i only need three more ways of disabling the windows operating system xp and not by physical damage
if any one know a command in dos tha tcould do it that would be great. i cant use viruses either

thanks
Jimmie

[sjb007]

As stated in the second post

We don't help with homework..

Im sure that finding other options by self research would be more valuable to your educational needs than been dictated the answers. The VM which you have is a good way to go and learn - just play around with it until you break it, then you will find the answers you are looking for....

[KanoakaVirus]

I guess you could always rummage through your registry?
http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com...ash-Windows-XP
Also typing your question here or Google are the same thing you will be copying. If you truly want to 'Learn' then do as Sjb007 suggested and fiddle with your reg and system files. I'd of thought it would have made sense to find ways on preventing windows from crashing But i suppose it could come in handy knowing a few ways windows can crash if it were to ever happen to you.

[Mike0001]

Originally Posted by jimmiecu

It for a 2nd year operating system in college and i am trying to learn it by asking and not by just copying so any help would be gretly appreciated
i have del the hal.dll diles on the vm ware and it worked a treat so i only need three more ways of disabling the windows operating system xp and not by physical damage
if any one know a command in dos tha tcould do it that would be great. i cant use viruses either

thanks
Jimmie

Load it in Linux with its ntfs extensions and type

rm -r windows folder

Next one: find ways of messing up the boot sector, eg, GRUB, or just overwrite it using DD.

Third one: screw up the partition table.

[Razer]

Keep fixing the MBR using an XP disk, at some point it should corrupt and render it useless, that's a hardware thing though and wouldn't suggest it if you're doing it in VM ware..

Overwriting the booter with an older one (Win 2k) will delete the XP one and I don't think 2k can boot XP

[eppoeh]

what's wrong with water and dirt?

doesn't "format c: /q/u" still work?

edit boot.ini will work:)

linking exe files to paint is funny (explorer->folder options->file types)

uninstalling ide/sata controller will work:)

sigh... soooooooo many ways...

school related:
try reading "notepad c:\com1" or "notepad c:\lpt1".
what happends if you put a chinese mbr version in? search chinese fdisk, fdisk /mbr