S&WSigma40VEShooter":h7eqgvon said:
Frankie":h7eqgvon said:
We bought a new laptop. Now we have two older ones laying around the place. I'd like to give them away, but might have stuff on the hard drive that I'd just as soon someone else not see (bank acct #s, credit card #s, etc). Any suggestions about how to clean up the hard drive without killing the operating system? Thanks....
If you want to kill that stuff completely out of there you have to do a complete format and reinstall and that will "kill" the old operating system that is on it now.
If you had been reading the posts a complete format and reinstall will not work. The images will still be "ghosted" for lack of a better word and can be retrieved.
The safest is a hammer to the hard drive
The next safest is a program that is DND or DOD compliant for wiping a hard drive
The most vulnerable is just inserting the operating system disc and reformatting the computer