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Old June 19th 08, 08:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Marcy
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Default windows ME 'died'

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-! ! ! !


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Old June 19th 08, 09:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mart
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Default windows ME 'died'

Here's a couple of reasonably helpful pages :-
http://www.fonerbooks.com/r_hard.htm
http://www.helpwithpcs.com/upgrading...hard-drive.htm

When you've (successfully) removed it, you could either hit (very hard) it
with a sledge hammer and then take to you local scrap metal recycler or buy
an IDE-USB adapter and use it as a portable storage device.
e.g. http://www.cwol.com/usb/usb-2-ide-adapter-ud200.htm

Mart



"Marcy" RM@RMcom wrote in message
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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.

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



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Old July 27th 08, 03:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
moose
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Default windows ME 'died'

Marcy,
What you have to do is take the hard drive out and put it into a different
computer. Than copy all of your files to floppy or cd and then put them on to
your new computer. Then take your broken computer and throw it away and then
it is clean!

"Marcy" wrote:

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.

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



 




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