Re: Cleaning old computer

From: Burger (msburger314_at_cox.net)
Date: 05/24/05 

Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 05:15:35 -0700

I want to "totally delete everything off of the hard drive" and then
reinstall the Windows XP operating system only. 

-- 
Burger Boy
"andy smart" wrote:
> Burger wrote:
> > How do I "clean" my old computer and then reinstall the Windows XP operating 
> > system so I can give it to my kids' school?
> 
> How fully do you want to clean it - you could just use a file scrubbing
> utility to destroy the confidential files, then boot it off the CD and
> when it asks where you want to install it delete the partition and
> recreate and reformat it.
> 
> If you want more 'total destruction of data' you'll have to do some more
> serious cleaning of the hard drive with something that will overwrite
> the entire surface with random data.
>

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