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old pc i need to wipe

peediedj
peediedj Posts: 1,267 Forumite
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i bought a new pc at christmas,i want ot sell old one,but still has all data on it,can anyone tell me how to compeltely wipe it?
Live in my shoes for a week,then tell me your lifes hard!

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  • albertross_2
    albertross_2 Posts: 8,932 Forumite
    dban, but it will wipe windows too
    Ever get the feeling you are wasting your time? :rolleyes:
  • PROLIANT
    PROLIANT Posts: 6,396 Forumite
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    peediedj wrote: »
    i bought a new pc at christmas,i want ot sell old one,but still has all data on it,can anyone tell me how to compeltely wipe it?
    Take out the hard disk from the old computer and put it into the new computer as a slave drive, download a utility called killdisk and install and run it on the slave drive, it will erase it 100%.
    Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
  • fwor
    fwor Posts: 6,944 Forumite
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    If your old PC has a floppy drive there's no need to move disks around - just download the bootable Killdisk floppy and boot from that directly:

    http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm

    Or better, if it can boot from CD, download the bootable ISO of DBAN and boot from that, as Albertross suggested.
  • PROLIANT
    PROLIANT Posts: 6,396 Forumite
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    fwor wrote: »
    If your old PC has a floppy drive there's no need to move disks around - just download the bootable Killdisk floppy and boot from that directly:

    http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm

    Or better, if it can boot from CD, download the bootable ISO of DBAN and boot from that, as Albertross suggested.
    I wasn't sure if you could still get the bootable floppy image, have you got the info on that mate?
    Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
  • fwor
    fwor Posts: 6,944 Forumite
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    Yeah - I had trouble finding it last year, but it seems to be back:

    http://software.lsoft.net/killdisk.zip

    Or here if you want the single-step version:

    http://software.lsoft.net/killdiskfloppysetup.exe

    Haven't used it recently as DBAN seems to be better for the truly paranoid...
  • PROLIANT
    PROLIANT Posts: 6,396 Forumite
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    fwor wrote: »
    Yeah - I had trouble finding it last year, but it seems to be back:

    http://software.lsoft.net/killdisk.zip

    Or here if you want the single-step version:

    http://software.lsoft.net/killdiskfloppysetup.exe

    Haven't used it recently as DBAN seems to be better for the truly paranoid...
    Cheers matey, this tool I actually need asap, I have 80 odd hard disk's to erase for re-use at my work, happy days are here again!
    Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
  • peediedj
    peediedj Posts: 1,267 Forumite
    fwor wrote: »
    If your old PC has a floppy drive there's no need to move disks around - just download the bootable Killdisk floppy and boot from that directly:

    http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm

    Or better, if it can boot from CD, download the bootable ISO of DBAN and boot from that, as Albertross suggested.
    THATS THE BEST OPTION as cant move disks aronud
    Live in my shoes for a week,then tell me your lifes hard!
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