- formatting
- Posted by howie on February 13th, 2008
Can anyone tell me if there is a way to wipe a hard drive without
loseing the operating system?
- Posted by meerkat on February 13th, 2008
"howie" <harvey@mlecwb.net> wrote in message
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First you do an image of the drive to another h/drive.
Then you can erase or format the original.
So you`ve saved the OS, and wiped the drive.
- Posted by Rôgêr on February 13th, 2008
howie wrote:
Not sure exactly what you're trying to accomplish, but BCWipe will wipe
free space and slack space without harming software.
- Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on February 13th, 2008
meerkat wrote:
But why? :-)
The usual "reason" to wipe a (Windows) drive is malware or a corrupt
registry. Image/Format/Restore just gets you right back to where you
were.
As usual, if the OP had given more details, a better answer could be
found.
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- Posted by meerkat on February 13th, 2008
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bw..
- Posted by Mike Easter on February 13th, 2008
howie wrote:
What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
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- Posted by Cub on February 13th, 2008
"howie" <harvey@mlecwb.net> wrote in message
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Are you talking about erasing files that you don't want anyone recovering ,
then use Glary Utilities
go to file shreader and select the wipe free space tab .
that should do a reasonable job
- Posted by Blinky the Shark on February 13th, 2008
Mike Easter wrote:
I think he wants to install a spell checker.
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- Posted by Badger on February 14th, 2008
"howie" <harvey@mlecwb.net> wrote in message
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No there isn't
- Posted by english_dude@london.com on February 15th, 2008
Can anyone tell me if there is a way to wipe a hard drive without
loseing the operating system?
maybe the orig poster wanted to erase private data including so-called
deleted items, possibly before selling his computer
ccleaner from http://www.ccleaner.com/ can securely erase all temp
files by overwriting
other apparently unused parts of the hard drive can still contain
recoverable deleted files, and these areas can be overwritten using
the file undelete app Restoration from http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html
both progs are free
