Re: Win2k Format

From: Dodo2u (dodo2u_at_-takethisNOSPAMout-freemail.nl)
Date: 07/03/05 

Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 14:00:16 +0200

"george" <nospam@btinternet.com> wrote in
news:d9ol1t$qtg$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com:

> Hi All
> I am selling my old PC which has win2k pro on it. I would like to
> format the hard drive as new owner would prefer to install another
> operating system, plus I don't want the new owner to be able to access
> my old documents, is running FDISK and doing a normal format
> sufficient? Cheers
>
>
>

I think you have to use a special program to do this, as there are many
ways to salvage old data from a formatted disk.
Formatting is only freeing up the disk space, not overwriting all sectors.
Even FDisking is not sufficient.

These annihilator progs overwrite all positions of the HDD with zeros, I
seem to remember.

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