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| 539001 | 2007-04-08 08:34:00 | I have a PC and need to give it away after doing a reinstall of Win XP Does just doing the complete normal format during Windows XP setup override the previous data or it still can be accessible? Thanks |
learning (5137) | ||
| 539002 | 2007-04-08 08:38:00 | edit: double post.. | Dannz (1668) | ||
| 539003 | 2007-04-08 08:39:00 | It will still be accessible. (well to someone who wants to get to it anyway) Use something like DBAN (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) to overwrite before you reinstall windows. |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 539004 | 2007-04-08 20:55:00 | This (pcworld.co.nz) might help, | Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 539005 | 2007-04-08 21:18:00 | "Be very careful with these programs, there is no going back. Floppy version and CD iso, they are used to clean all detected HDD's. Boot off either of them for total erasure of all detected HDD's!!!" http://www.dban.org/ |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 539006 | 2007-04-09 08:45:00 | Do what i do, pull the plugs from the drives you want to keep intact | Phil B (648) | ||
| 539007 | 2007-04-09 08:56:00 | A zero-disk format will make it 100% unrecoverable. This will work: sourceforge.net It writes over the HDD with patterns multiple times so no data can be recovered. |
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