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Titan01

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    removing everything
    « on: December 16, 2006, 04:33:01 PM »
    I'm selling my old PC but want to erase everything on the hard drive first.  I'm using windows XP home and don't have a windows disk.
    How do I erase everything in one and make it so nothing can be recovered? The cpu is also badly infected with viruses, will doing a system whipe remove them too?

    thanks
    « Last Edit: December 16, 2006, 04:33:53 PM by Titan01 »
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    soybean



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    Re: removing everything
    « Reply #1 on: December 16, 2006, 05:05:29 PM »
    I have used this but it looks like it might do the job quite well: http://www.killdisk.com/
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      Re: removing everything
      « Reply #2 on: December 16, 2006, 06:32:57 PM »
      Technical note: the CPU does not get infected by viruses, the harddrive does. If you put in another harddrive, or formatted the existing one, it should remove the viruses.
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