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Removing personal files

Postby Torquay-Pete » Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:23 pm

Hi Everyone, I am getting a new PC in a few days time, I will be selling my present PC Tower and was wondering how to delete or remove my personal stuff from my present PC without having to re-install windows from scratch?? Is thera a program which will clean out everything apart from Windows? Your thoughts will be appreciated as usual :wink:
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Postby Gecko » Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:18 pm

If it were my system that I was going to sell, I would format c: /u and then reinstall Windows.
It’s the only way to make sure that everything is gone or at least written over.

Besides if I were buying a used system I wouldn’t want a bunch of stuff leftover from the previous owner.

It takes about 100 minutes to format and install Windows XP well worth the time investment I say.

That way you know there is nothing on there of yours.
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Postby venney » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:40 pm

If you REally dont want people to find your info the only sure way is to kill the drive. But a format will cover up your tracks but the information can still be found.

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