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Wiping a hard-drive

  • 18-08-2009 06:44PM
    #1
    Pharsykal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭


    Hi,

    I'm selling my laptop and looking to completely wipe my hard-drive. Is there free software/ easy method to do this? I don't have my original windows disk at the moment, do I need this?

    Thanks

    P


Comments

  • #2
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    http://www.dban.org/

    If you dont have origional discs possibly there is a hidden partition on the machine with the windows setup files, search online to see if you can back these up and put them on a CD/DVD, should be guides out there I'm sure, DBan will do a full secure format, compared to the basic one a OS install would do, which would make recovering files very easy

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  • #3
    stesh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 297 ✭✭stesh


    http://eraser.heidi.ie/


  • #4
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,251 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Any of those tools would be fine I'm sure, but without reinstall discs you will find it more difficult to sell a laptop with no operating system. Or will you be installing linux on it?


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