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| Thread ID: 71933 | 2006-08-22 04:30:00 | sw to clean a hard drive | jessnz (10777) | Press F1 |
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| 480038 | 2006-08-22 04:30:00 | Can anyone direct me to a good program to clean the hard drive in a pc I am selling? I want to leave the OS intact (win 98) but completely wipe any trace of all my old files. | jessnz (10777) | ||
| 480039 | 2006-08-22 04:47:00 | I think you'd be better to reinstall 98 after wiping the whole drive. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 480040 | 2006-08-22 05:29:00 | I'd agree, you could clean the areas of your drive not in use with something like Eraser (sourceforge.net), but there will be loads left in the registry and other places that you will have to cleanse if you want to have no traces left. Even if you remove the partition and re-create it, it's sometimes possible to get files back. I'd suggest you securely wipe the whole hard drive with boot and nuke (sourceforge.net) and then reinstall Windows - nothing left at all then. |
silvero (11011) | ||
| 480041 | 2006-08-22 05:30:00 | Yes, you should go to START - RUN - and type in fdisk and follow the instructions from there and then re-install Win 98. Good luck |
PeterA (8057) | ||
| 480042 | 2006-08-22 06:52:00 | Yes, you should go to START - RUN - and type in fdisk and follow the instructions from there and then re-install Win 98. Good luck That does not clean it, it only "visibly" removes it. Any one with a basic undeleter can ind and revocer files then. |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 480043 | 2006-08-22 07:05:00 | There is a FAQ on wiping hard drives here (faqf1.net.nz it_can%27t_be_recovered) but I am not sure which of the programs listed, if any, will wipe just your data files rather than the complete drive. | FoxyMX (5) | ||
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