INFORMATION: Selling Your Old PC? Protect Your Data!

Richie-from-the-Boro

TheBurningLight wrote: »

This was touched above but drives cost money and can be sold for cash. If you are wanting to sell and have no future use for it then it is possible to make clear to sell on. You do not have to write it off.



If this is the reception you get for trying to contribute then i can see its not worth the effort trying.

We tend to spot spammers quickly, don't be offended, better people than you have tried .. .. .. and failed.

' Spank ' .. .. just google the nym TheBurningLight / solutions / consultancy.

As for as a new user denied the function of posting links or images, that's exactly why you were denied. If you feel you have something to offer just remove the pretentiousness of your 3 line ' About the author ' sig line and continue posting.

busenbust

free4440273 wrote: »

About the author

^^That's a lot of experience you have Burning! Looking forward to your posts! Welcome to the Forum !!!!:beer::beer::beer:.

And Happy Halloween!

And u too!

spud17

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

We tend to spot spammers quickly, don't be offended, better people than you have tried .. .. .. and failed.

' Spank ' .. .. just google the nym TheBurningLight / solutions / consultancy.

A .co.uk and a .com, good one Richie,
As I've said before, I'm always suspicious of posters who 'push' their qualies.
Pretentious, that's not a word we see often on here, but very apt anyroadup.:beer:

Richie-from-the-Boro

spud17 wrote: »

A .co.uk and a .com, good one Richie,
As I've said before, I'm always suspicious of posters who 'push' their qualies.
Pretentious, that's not a word we see often on here, but very apt anyroadup.:beer:

HiYa spud lad :beer:

Many of the folk here have similar qualities / qualifications but don't feel the need to self proclaim their importance. The pre-determined use of that kind of sig line is intended to attract notice and impress others, in the same way and for the same reason that a prostitute wears a sable coat. Many of those in this group without any paper quals are by experience of equal ability.

Still as I said earlier if the O/P feels he has something to offer the group I encourage s/he to do so, after hopefully removing the ostentatious sig ! .

- and now exit stage left for a couple of real [ newkie brown ] beers

debitcardmayhem

Richie I think :beer::beer::beer::beer::beer: minus :beer:

poppy10_2

Spam or not, recommending DBAN for novice users is dangerous - people could easily hose their systems and lose all their valuable data when all they wanted to do was wipe one disk.

stevemcol

I suspect most of the posts above will have scared this guy off which is a shame. He might have contributed a useful series of posts.
I'm not a huge fan of flowery signatures but actually on this board it's not a bad idea to help filter out some of the flakier advice offered. They certainly don't harm anyone.

I think you could have given him a chance.

Russel245

Going back to the post, I remember the company I used to work for reformatted the drive about 7 times to clear the data of any files they had on it. Would that still be effective ( thought it still doesn't save any time )

poppy10_2

Russel245 wrote: »

Going back to the post, I remember the company I used to work for reformatted the drive about 7 times to clear the data of any files they had on it. Would that still be effective ( thought it still doesn't save any time )

If they just did a standard Windows high-level format, which is probably what they did, then no. All that does is delete the index to the files rather than overwriting the files themselves. A single pass with a file shredder like Eraser would be quicker and much more effective.

closed

7 times sounds like an overwrite, rather than a format.