Ok, I had a spare Windows ME pc Emachines tower that I was handed down to
me. After having used it spareingly for 2 years, it died; we had a black out
and I think the machine fried because it was not on a surge protect outlet.
But the machine was off.

Anyways, before I part it out, or store it, or trash it, I want to remove
the hardrive to ensure security. This pc was not used but for occasional
surfing but i did make a few payments on it and saved the pages to "my
documents".... So my question is what do I remove to ensure that no
documents, pictures, or anything compromising stays on the computer? I
already know how to open the tower but dont really know what any parts look
like.
So, if you have tips, or can nicely direct me to read up on other sites to
accomplish this, I would appreciate it.
This was at least 7+ year old Windows ME edition and i never got the CD.
This unit worked fine til that day we had the power outage. Now it wont even
turn on. I thank you in advance.

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Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! !