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Old June 10th 04, 05:43 PM
Sue
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Hi,
My client wants to donate an old Win 98 computer system to
a school. He doesn't want the possibility of ANY of his old
files to be accessed. I don't believe he cares about
providing them with any usable opperating system left on
the computer. I have searched my old Win 98 & Win 95
manuals for re-formating hard drives and cannot find the
correct key sequences. I know he will have to manually
remove his old files - OR - can he just use a keystroke
sequence to all-at-once delete all the files on the hard
drive? He can follow SOME instructions so the answer should
be pretty simple if possible. I will not be there to help
him transfer files. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Sue
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Old June 10th 04, 07:58 PM
philo
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Default Re-format Win 98 hard drive


"Sue" wrote in message
...
Hi,
My client wants to donate an old Win 98 computer system to
a school. He doesn't want the possibility of ANY of his old
files to be accessed. I don't believe he cares about
providing them with any usable opperating system left on
the computer. I have searched my old Win 98 & Win 95
manuals for re-formating hard drives and cannot find the
correct key sequences. I know he will have to manually
remove his old files - OR - can he just use a keystroke
sequence to all-at-once delete all the files on the hard
drive? He can follow SOME instructions so the answer should
be pretty simple if possible. I will not be there to help
him transfer files. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Sue



all he needs do do is use a bootdisk
and once booted up...issue the command format C:


note: though it's not terribly likely, someone with the right computer
skills
could unformat the drive...so it may not be a bad idea to reload windows
on the machine


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Old June 10th 04, 10:57 PM
Greg
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Default Re-format Win 98 hard drive

If he wants a more secure format have him go to
http://www.killdisk.com/ and download the free
demo. It should make recovery of all info on the
HD impossably all he needs to do is download then
click on the file and it will load to a floppy.
Reboot with that floppy and follow the instructions.
Hope this helps.
-----Original Message-----
Hi,
My client wants to donate an old Win 98 computer system to
a school. He doesn't want the possibility of ANY of his

old
files to be accessed. I don't believe he cares about
providing them with any usable opperating system left on
the computer. I have searched my old Win 98 & Win 95
manuals for re-formating hard drives and cannot find the
correct key sequences. I know he will have to manually
remove his old files - OR - can he just use a keystroke
sequence to all-at-once delete all the files on the hard
drive? He can follow SOME instructions so the answer

should
be pretty simple if possible. I will not be there to help
him transfer files. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Sue
.

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Old June 11th 04, 03:15 PM
Lil' Dave
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Default Re-format Win 98 hard drive

Since you emphasize the word "any" by capitalizing, the only sure fire way
is to physically shred the entire hard drive platter(s), then smelt the
shreds.
There are ways to make it extremely difficult to assemble data from a hard
drive. Most don't have the hardware, a clean room, and time to assemble
data cleaned using these methods.
"Sue" wrote in message
...
Hi,
My client wants to donate an old Win 98 computer system to
a school. He doesn't want the possibility of ANY of his old
files to be accessed. I don't believe he cares about
providing them with any usable opperating system left on
the computer. I have searched my old Win 98 & Win 95
manuals for re-formating hard drives and cannot find the
correct key sequences. I know he will have to manually
remove his old files - OR - can he just use a keystroke
sequence to all-at-once delete all the files on the hard
drive? He can follow SOME instructions so the answer should
be pretty simple if possible. I will not be there to help
him transfer files. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Sue



 




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