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Proper deletion tool for XP

marknoonan1974 · 2009-08-12 11:43:47

Hi everybody, I have a few computers that I am giving away, but I heard that even when I delete the files off them, that the files can still be recovered and that I need to run some software over the computers to properly delete the files. does anybody know of any free software to do this? Basically, I want to make sure…

12-08-2009 12:43PM

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marknoonan1974

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Hi everybody,
I have a few computers that I am giving away, but I heard that even when I delete the files off them, that the files can still be recovered and that I need to run some software over the computers to properly delete the files. does anybody know of any free software to do this? Basically, I want to make sure all the information that was on the computer is totally gone.

Thanks in advance

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#2 12-08-2009 12:46PM

Talon.ie

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There's a list of tools do do this for you here http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/securedelete.shtml

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#3 12-08-2009 03:32PM

Verres

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Yes - DBAN. "Darik's Boot and Nuke".

Google it.

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