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Software => Computer software => Topic started by: Titan01 on December 16, 2006, 04:33:01 PM

Title: removing everything
Post by: Titan01 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

Title: Re: removing everything
Post by: soybean 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/

Title: Re: removing everything
Post by: Neil 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.