hard drive

[Guest]

hi,

can someone tell me how i can erase my hard drive before i sell my pc.

i dont want anyone getting my personal details

thanks

 

[DL]

Use the win cd, or reinstallation cd
Or if you want to be entirely sure remove & destroy the hd

 

[Bruce Chambers]

hi,

can someone tell me how i can erase my hard drive before i sell my pc.

i dont want anyone getting my personal details

thanks

To protect your personal information and data from any future users
of average skills, you should, at the very least, format the hard drive.
If you wish to do a more thorough job of protecting your personal
data, WipeDrive
(http://www.whitecanyon.com/wipedrive-erase-hard-drive.php) meets U.S.
DoD standards for securely cleaning surplus unclassified hard drives,
and could be used before formatting and reinstalling the OS and
applications.


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[BigJim]

open the case and look who manufactured it, like seagate, maxtor etc. Go to
their site and you
can download their tools. They should have a program that will delete the
partition and write 0's and 1's to the drive destroying or overwriting all
data on it. Now if you run this software it will take some time.

 

[Guest]

THANKS TO ALL WHO REPLIED. RICHARD

To protect your personal information and data from any future users
of average skills, you should, at the very least, format the hard drive.
If you wish to do a more thorough job of protecting your personal
data, WipeDrive
(http://www.whitecanyon.com/wipedrive-erase-hard-drive.php) meets U.S.
DoD standards for securely cleaning surplus unclassified hard drives,
and could be used before formatting and reinstalling the OS and
applications.


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:



They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell