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03-05-2004, 02:15 PM
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Junior Techie Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 93
|  How to get rid of FootPrints in puter before selling
Hi,
I wasn;t sure where to post this, but hope this is the right area. I will be selling my HP 7850 Pavillion, but before I do want to get rid of all "Footprints" (Info) I have in the hard drive and anywhere else, how do I go about that????
Thanks for helping ....
Cindy
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03-05-2004, 02:32 PM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 872
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Just format the drive n' zero fill it ... that would be the easiest way ..
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03-05-2004, 02:49 PM
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Banned Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 42
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Most MFG HD disks, or norton have a easy way to do it for you, it just takes a while to finish.
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03-05-2004, 03:47 PM
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Junior Techie Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 93
| How to Format a Drive
I'm sorry but I don't know how to format a drive. This is in reply to how to clean info on Puter before selling.
Thanks to all replys...
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03-05-2004, 03:51 PM
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Just boot with a bootable floppy ... Type format c:
change the drive letter ..respectively for other partitions u have
That's it
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03-05-2004, 04:40 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by preet2u
Just boot with a bootable floppy ... Type format c:
change the drive letter ..respectively for other partitions u have
That's it | I have been able to recover some information from computers that have been reformatted. Norton has a good program that overwrites all the data a few times. | |
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03-05-2004, 04:40 PM
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03-05-2004, 04:49 PM
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Junior Techie Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 93
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Thanks for the replys, I will give it a try when the time comes. This forum has been so helpful and has so many good ideas tips, Thanks All
Cindy
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03-05-2004, 04:51 PM
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rasputinj : To use Norton ..u'll need to run it from within' the OS ...
Whereas ..when u format n' zero fill it ..a couple of times.. the data becomes unrecoverable ...
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03-05-2004, 05:18 PM
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Junior Techie Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 93
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Thank you so much, that is what I wanted to know.....
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