Help needed pretty quickly re deleting data - ta!

LindseyM

Hi everyone,

My friend and I are doing a car boot sale tomorrow and is selling her (v old) PC - she doesn't have any of the original CD's or disks that came with it so what should she do re getting all the data off there? I've just been reading a thread and killdisk and dban were mentioned - would this delete Windows as well - I was getting a bit confused with it all

Need help pretty quickly cos we need to be up at 4.30am :eek: :eek: lol

Cheers
Linds

bat999

Hi
dban will definitely wipe out your windows too.
:cool:

LindseyM

thanks bat - so would you recommend doing that and just selling it on with no OS?

bazza1603

Hi,

Only safe way is remove the hard drive otherwise theres always a way to retrieve at least bits of information.....

I have more than 16 pc's at work that I willnot sell...for this reason.

Regards

Baz

BritBrat

Format the disk and get some program to write 0's to it then 1's to it a few times and it should be OK.

You could also Fdisk it and make a small partition that should mess any data access up.

That will take some time.

albertross_2

If you want to leave windows on, all you can do is

turn off system restore.

Delete all your data and emails, uninstall all the extra applications in control panel.

then run this (tick all the boxes)

www.ccleaner.com

then this (tick all the boxes, wipe 7 times)

http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/clndisk.html

then this

http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/

if the pc has a windows restore partition, do a restore from that afterwards