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Bought new Laptop

Crossy
Crossy Posts: 226 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
I have just ordered a new Dell laptop to replace my old packard bell G1350, I wanted something lighter and more portable.

I spent last night taking off old programmes etc from the old laptop in order to sell on ebay, but does anyone know of a free software that will remove personal data. Obviously I want to leave all what was originallty on the machine.

Thanks in advance

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  • robnye
    robnye Posts: 5,411 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    cant you do a full reinstall from the recovery disk/partition, and allow it to reformat the disk
    smile --- it makes people wonder what you are up to.... ;) :cool:
  • BillScarab
    BillScarab Posts: 6,027 Forumite
    A reformat will not stop people if they really want to get at your data. I would recommend dban, it will make it much harder for anyone to find anything on the disk afterwards.
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    If I feel the need to hide
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    And feel I want to die


  • robnye
    robnye Posts: 5,411 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    BillScarab wrote: »
    A reformat will not stop people if they really want to get at your data. I would recommend dban, it will make it much harder for anyone to find anything on the disk afterwards.

    yes but that will wipe the whole disk, the op wants to leave it as it was when he bought it, which i presume is similar to a clean windows install
    smile --- it makes people wonder what you are up to.... ;) :cool:
  • albertross_2
    albertross_2 Posts: 8,932 Forumite
    delete all your personal files (or ideally restore from recovery disk/partition), then run these one after the other (tick all the boxes).

    http://www.ccleaner.com/
    http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/clndisk.html
    Ever get the feeling you are wasting your time? :rolleyes:
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