How do you clear a hard drive

gizmoleeds

I once tried wiping a video tape with a large magnet from an amplifier speaker (which I had been led to believe would work by a certain soap opera :rolleyes: ) but it didn't

Quasar

How about re-mastering the computer from scratch? I had to do that once, on my old W98. There are two master CDs, to be inserted one after the other according to instructions. The hard drive is wiped clean, then the factory settings are reprogrammed into it, and no trace of any previous activity remains.

Happy to stand corrected, though...

Mr_Skint_2

Quasar wrote:

How about re-mastering the computer from scratch? I had to do that once, on my old W98. There are two master CDs, to be inserted one after the other according to instructions. The hard drive is wiped clean, then the factory settings are reprogrammed into it, and no trace of any previous activity remains.

Happy to stand corrected, though...

Best sit down then :rotfl:

Unfortinately anyone can recover anything from a formatted harddrive
with a simple free tool from Tucows or summet like that, its demo-or shareware.

I personally use the UBCD D-ban .... http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/tutorials.html
I think thats it let me check, see ye in a bit.


Yeah here it is and it was d-ban http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61951&release_id=225931