trooper Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Hi all Does anyone know of a program that can get a PC back to its bare bones with a view to selling it? I've removed all the programs and files but I'm not 100% sure that everything is gone forever. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Re format the hard drive, re install the OS. However, not everything will be irretrievable from the hard drive. Only way to be really sure is to put a new hard drive in and destroy the existing unit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxst Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Hello You can use something like this: http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ It will overwrite all the free space on your hard drive 7 times which will stop the data being recovered by the casual user. And that is fine in 99.9999% of the cases. As above the only way to ensure your data is completely gone is to cut up the drive and then burn it, preferably each piece in a different place. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiten55 Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 what make is the pc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imi Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 preferably each piece in a different place. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper Posted March 29, 2008 Author Share Posted March 29, 2008 The PC is a Fujitsu. I'll give the Eraser a blast. Thanks for the help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxst Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 LOL A friend is a forensic scientist specialising in the recovery of data. I wasn't joking Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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