Re: Selling off an old comput
  By: Kurt Weiske to Matt Munson on Thu Feb 17 2011 10:43 am

 > Are you worried about the information on the disk? I'd suggest running
 > Darik's boot and nuke disk (http://www.dban.org) or any other wiping tool
 > first. Depending on the hardware, it shouldn't take more than 30 minutes or
 > so, and any data will be difficult to recover off the drive.
I am hoping that reformating the hard drive would just offer some basic
deletion. and maybe delete hidden directories that might of had porn or warez
on it.


 > 2. Wipe the drive, re-install Windows and update it to the latest/greatest.
That is what I am planning on doing.
And maybe add firefox and thunderbird to the install as well, and have the
current windows patches on it too.
     ~ I am on twitter: {at}thinktank79 on Twitter ~
--- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32