Re: Cleaning Out Hard disk

I have nortons Ghost program. You can boot it from the cd
drive ( change the bios to boot from the cd drive). It has
a utility in the support directory called gdisk. It has a
diskwipe command, that will erase everything on the drive.
You can type: gdisk /diskwipe ? for the format of the
command. This wipes everything including the OS, data and
the master boot record. Reformatting the drive dosen't
wipe any data, just cuts the link to where the data is
from the file allocation table.

Norton utililities will boot from the cd drive, but you
will use conventional dos commands to reformat the drive.
I am not sure if it has a wipe command like ghost.
Hope this helps,
Ken

>-----Original Message-----
>S Meta wrote:

>> I need step by step instructions on how to empty out

the

>> hard disk.

>
>If you merely intend to reinstall XP, then just boot from

the

>XP CD and follow directions. That will destroy (access

to)

>data, so backup what you want to save first. And you will
>need to reinstall all apps.
>
>If you want to donate your HD to somebody and want to

ensure

>that the recipient cannot read your data, then you should
>wipe the HD first. Every HD vendor has a utility that

will

>simply write zeroes all over the HD; to be more secure,

you

>might want to search the web for Eraser or an equivalent

app.

>--
>Cheers, Bob
>
>.
>

And for old timers a simple INIT HELLO would work.


Sorry.. I couldn't resist

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:49:37 -0700, "S Meta" <sagrr@aol.com> wrote:

>I need step by step instructions on how to empty out the
>hard disk.