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Hi to all. After 11 years of using my WIN 98SE finally got me a new
computer. I want to either donate or just give away the old one. Should I reformat the HD? If so, how's the best way to do it? (never done it) TIA J.R. |
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JayAr wrote:
Hi to all. After 11 years of using my WIN 98SE finally got me a new computer. I want to either donate or just give away the old one. Should I reformat the HD? If so, how's the best way to do it? (never done it) TIA J.R. Jay: Note that formatting the hard drive will remove the operating system and make the computer just a collection of hardware parts till an OS is installed. That said - While windows is running you cannot format your C: hard drive, Windows will give you an error message. If you boot from a floppy or exit to DOS you can then format the HDD. At the command prompt just type: "format c:" then press "Enter". You will get a warning along the lines of "Are you sure? All data will be lost". Answer YES and the format will start. This will take some time but at the end you will get a format complete message and be given the opportunity to assign a text "Label" to the drive. If you are worried about people recovering your data from the formatted drive (possible with the right tools) you might want to use a disk wipe program like "CopyWipe": http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/copywipe.php This can make multiple writes of random data to the entire disk to be sure the old data is not recoverable. Note that such a wipe can take several hours on a large drive. HTH & GL John -- \\\||/// ------------------o000----(o)(o)----000o---------------- ----------------------------()-------------------------- '' Madness takes its toll - Please have exact change. '' John Dulak - 40.4913ºN,79.904ºW - http://tinyurl.com/2qs6o6 |
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JayAr wrote:
Hi to all. After 11 years of using my WIN 98SE finally got me a new computer. I want to either donate or just give away the old one. Should I reformat the HD? If so, how's the best way to do it? (never done it) TIA J.R. Jay: Note that formatting the hard drive will remove the operating system and make the computer just a collection of hardware parts till an OS is installed. That said - While windows is running you cannot format your C: hard drive, Windows will give you an error message. If you boot from a floppy or exit to DOS you can then format the HDD. At the command prompt just type: "format c:" then press "Enter". You will get a warning along the lines of "Are you sure? All data will be lost". Answer YES and the format will start. This will take some time but at the end you will get a format complete message and be given the opportunity to assign a text "Label" to the drive. If you are worried about people recovering your data from the formatted drive (possible with the right tools) you might want to use a disk wipe program like "CopyWipe": http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/copywipe.php This can make multiple writes of random data to the entire disk to be sure the old data is not recoverable. Note that such a wipe can take several hours on a large drive. HTH & GL John -- \\\||/// ------------------o000----(o)(o)----000o---------------- ----------------------------()-------------------------- '' Madness takes its toll - Please have exact change. '' John Dulak - 40.4913ºN,79.904ºW - http://tinyurl.com/2qs6o6 |
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PUT IT IN THE NEW COMPUTER
Set the NEW COMPUTER HD Jumpers to Master and the old one Jumpers to Save and then reformat the old HD there if you like. But do not give a way the old HD you need to kill it first. for reformat will not kill it, the HD is alive and will always reminder you "John Dulak" wrote in message ... JayAr wrote: Hi to all. After 11 years of using my WIN 98SE finally got me a new computer. I want to either donate or just give away the old one. Should I reformat the HD? If so, how's the best way to do it? (never done it) TIA J.R. Jay: Note that formatting the hard drive will remove the operating system and make the computer just a collection of hardware parts till an OS is installed. That said - While windows is running you cannot format your C: hard drive, Windows will give you an error message. If you boot from a floppy or exit to DOS you can then format the HDD. At the command prompt just type: "format c:" then press "Enter". You will get a warning along the lines of "Are you sure? All data will be lost". Answer YES and the format will start. This will take some time but at the end you will get a format complete message and be given the opportunity to assign a text "Label" to the drive. If you are worried about people recovering your data from the formatted drive (possible with the right tools) you might want to use a disk wipe program like "CopyWipe": http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/copywipe.php This can make multiple writes of random data to the entire disk to be sure the old data is not recoverable. Note that such a wipe can take several hours on a large drive. HTH & GL John -- \\\||/// ------------------o000----(o)(o)----000o---------------- ----------------------------()-------------------------- '' Madness takes its toll - Please have exact change. '' John Dulak - 40.4913ºN,79.904ºW - http://tinyurl.com/2qs6o6 |
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PUT IT IN THE NEW COMPUTER
Set the NEW COMPUTER HD Jumpers to Master and the old one Jumpers to Save and then reformat the old HD there if you like. But do not give a way the old HD you need to kill it first. for reformat will not kill it, the HD is alive and will always reminder you "John Dulak" wrote in message ... JayAr wrote: Hi to all. After 11 years of using my WIN 98SE finally got me a new computer. I want to either donate or just give away the old one. Should I reformat the HD? If so, how's the best way to do it? (never done it) TIA J.R. Jay: Note that formatting the hard drive will remove the operating system and make the computer just a collection of hardware parts till an OS is installed. That said - While windows is running you cannot format your C: hard drive, Windows will give you an error message. If you boot from a floppy or exit to DOS you can then format the HDD. At the command prompt just type: "format c:" then press "Enter". You will get a warning along the lines of "Are you sure? All data will be lost". Answer YES and the format will start. This will take some time but at the end you will get a format complete message and be given the opportunity to assign a text "Label" to the drive. If you are worried about people recovering your data from the formatted drive (possible with the right tools) you might want to use a disk wipe program like "CopyWipe": http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/copywipe.php This can make multiple writes of random data to the entire disk to be sure the old data is not recoverable. Note that such a wipe can take several hours on a large drive. HTH & GL John -- \\\||/// ------------------o000----(o)(o)----000o---------------- ----------------------------()-------------------------- '' Madness takes its toll - Please have exact change. '' John Dulak - 40.4913ºN,79.904ºW - http://tinyurl.com/2qs6o6 |
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You need to physically destroy the hard disk OR overwrite every sector.
Symantec Enterprise products have a tool called GDISK which is great or....download Revo Uninstaller (free product) which has a drive cleaning tool under the "Tools" section. "JayAr" wrote in message ... Hi to all. After 11 years of using my WIN 98SE finally got me a new computer. I want to either donate or just give away the old one. Should I reformat the HD? If so, how's the best way to do it? (never done it) TIA J.R. |
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You need to physically destroy the hard disk OR overwrite every sector.
Symantec Enterprise products have a tool called GDISK which is great or....download Revo Uninstaller (free product) which has a drive cleaning tool under the "Tools" section. "JayAr" wrote in message ... Hi to all. After 11 years of using my WIN 98SE finally got me a new computer. I want to either donate or just give away the old one. Should I reformat the HD? If so, how's the best way to do it? (never done it) TIA J.R. |
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