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Title: Wiping a hard drive Post by: 4D on Monday, September 26, 2011, 07:31:35 I am looking to pass my old pc on and I want to clear all my data and applications, so the pc is like it was when I bought it (apart from being old). Is there a "restore / reset" procedure for this or do I have to uninstall each app? Help appreciated!
Title: Re: Wiping a hard drive Post by: Samdy Gray on Monday, September 26, 2011, 07:43:37 If you're concerned about your data, you should use a program that will do a 7 pass erase.
Title: Re: Wiping a hard drive Post by: RJack on Monday, September 26, 2011, 07:47:18 Not sure what Operating System your using but this might help
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255867 Title: Re: Wiping a hard drive Post by: 4D on Monday, September 26, 2011, 07:53:11 I'm running XP
Title: Re: Wiping a hard drive Post by: stfcinbmth on Monday, September 26, 2011, 08:03:24 DBan
http://www.dban.org/ Then reinstall Windows if you have the original disk Or File Shredder if you want to get rid of individual files http://www.fileshredder.org/ |