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Program to Wipe a PC Clean

  • 30-07-2006 1:13pm
    #1
    Irish Gunner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,785 ✭✭✭


    Hey

    Have old pc and looking for a program to wipe it clean

    Giving it away so want everything off it & then install an old version of windows

    Any free programs out there?

    cheers

    https://www.dublinarsenal.com/



Comments

  • #2
    Endurance Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Endurance Man


    You mean you just want to format it? Any windows installation will have this option.


  • #3
    BlackWizard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,282 ✭✭✭BlackWizard


    Format wont work if you want it to be secure. I dont know of any programs
    but im sure someone here will post something up.

    You could always format then fill the HD with useless data and then format again. :confused:


  • #4
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    See this thread


  • #5
    Amalgam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    Use this: http://dban.sourceforge.net/

    Darik's Boot 'N' Nuke. Burn it to CD or create a floppy. Secure 'proper' data erase. Just the thing for your situation, Irish Gunner.

    No disrespect, but a format with Windows doesn't cut it if you're giving a HD away, maybe for internal redeployement.

    A 4 or 8 PRNG wipe should be enough.

    Typical routine.

    *Start up PC with floppy or CD.

    *Press the ENTER key to start DBAN in interactive mode.

    *Up & Down arrow key to select partition or whole HD.

    *Space to select.


    R = Rounds, how many times the HD should be overwritten.

    V = Verify (on or off, much quicker off)

    M = Method

    (Quick Erase, RCMP TSSIT OPS-II, DoD Short, DoD 5220-22.M, Gutmann Wipe, PRNG Stream)

    F10 - Start what you've set up above..


  • #6
    Irish Gunner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,785 ✭✭✭Irish Gunner


    Cheers

    Now its bloody F!! up

    Down in parents house and windows 2000 is on it

    However the person my father gave it to buggered up the user name and login and now I cannot get into the pc They cannot remember what they pressed to change the old user name ?

    anyway of recovering it or resetting it

    Not Pc literate so started up in safe mode but still needed a user name and p/w

    anyway I can do it in dos ?

    If so how

    Thanks

    https://www.dublinarsenal.com/



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  • #7
    majiktripp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


    Try logging in using just Administrator leave the password blank and see if it works.....probably not but worth a go...otherwise.yet again grab the 'ol DBAN floppy disk or windows 2000 install cd and start from scratch ....again...


  • #8
    osmethod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 244 ✭✭osmethod


    Easy to use if you can burn to CD... Use it to blank the Administrator account or whatever accounts it finds...

    http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

    osmethod


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