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Eraseing Hard Drive

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by gande

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When I want to cleanout or wipe off my hard drive when I sell my computer whow do I do this?

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by syscokid

Make yourself a boot disk. Boot from it, run fdisk and remove any partitions. Then reboot and run fdisk again and create a new partition. Don't forget to make it active. Then you can reformat if you want.

by djent

Use Nortons wipedisk or ide_init.exe. either will write zeros to every sector, reformating may leave some data intact.

by caddywompus81

Either use a 3rd party utility (i.e. Norton) or create a bootdisk through control panel and when you boot off of it, run FDISK to wipe and format

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