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hammy Trade Member Offline Deep joy Posts: 3063 Total Thanks: 8 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Decorator	What to do. Sep 17^th, 2008, 11:58am Now that I am the proud owner of an imac, I need to dispose of my old pc. How do I wipe the hard drive clean? No, it's not full of porn, (well there might be just a little bit that I accidentally clicked on) but it does contain personal information. If I stick everything in the waste basket it stays on the computer doesn't it?
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Lectrician Administrator Trade Member Author Offline Ask The Trades Posts: 8815 Total Thanks: 109 For This Post: 0 Braunton, North Devon United Kingdom Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: What to do. Reply #1 - Sep 17^th, 2008, 3:57pm Are you selling or binning? You could format the hard drive, and then reinstall windows if you have the disks. Takes about an hour, and the PC will then back to new, as if from the shop. You could just format the drive, and sell it as formatted, supplied with windows disks. If your binning it, just destroy the hard drive.
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CWatters Super Member Offline "Daddy fick it" says James Posts: 5150 Total Thanks: 58 For This Post: 0 Gender:	Re: What to do. Reply #2 - Sep 18^th, 2008, 8:09am Take hard drive apart. Interesting looking inside them. Hammer = job done.
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Re: What to do.
Reply #3 - Sep 18^th, 2008, 9:11am

Lectrician wrote on Sep 17^th, 2008, 3:57pm:

Are you selling or binning?

You could format the hard drive, and then reinstall windows if you have the disks. Takes about an hour, and the PC will then back to new, as if from the shop.

You could just format the drive, and sell it as formatted, supplied with windows disks.

If your binning it, just destroy the hard drive.

If you're selling it and are really paranoid then use a program like Shredit.

Would all Third Party Apologists kindly mind their own business .....

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Reply #4 - Sep 18^th, 2008, 10:58am