hi there you can just reformat and reinstall the os and it wiil be clean
unless they know how to recover stuff from a old hard drive,that a format
and reinstall doesent get rid of ihave never had a prob with it yet but
like i say i anit an expert ?jerry the fatboy crider
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marilyn Wilson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 6:44 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Erasing Hard Drives
I want to give away one of my computers but it has some sensitive data on
it. To make sure it cannot be recovered, is it enough to format the hard
drives or do I need to use some sort of disk eraser program?
Marilyn
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