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