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Originally posted by bside
hi i am selling my pc...... do you know when you delete some thing some of your stuff is stord on you hard drive and you can recover it eg like the police do when they take you computer. is there a softwear which i can delete every think and it can not be recovered by any one not even the police....
Do a low-level format with three (or more) passes and the HDD should be safe to give away.
Either look on your HDD vendor's site, some provide tools to format the HDD. Or use a specialized application like
KillDisk which supports several different methods to format the HDD.
But probably the safest way to erase your HDD is to destroy and burn it
You can buy a new one or sell the computer without a HDD.