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ss2005
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O.P. how do you wipe a hard drive?
how do you wipe a hard drive of everything?
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| 12-31-2005 02:18 PM |
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Supersonicdarky
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RE: how do you wipe a hard drive?
either Dban - Whipes all drives clean
or insert your windows cd, reboot and choose format (if you want to format the drive with windows on it)
or if windows isn't installed on it, in my computer right click the drive, format
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| 12-31-2005 02:38 PM |
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RaceProUK
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RE: how do you wipe a hard drive?
What drive to you want to wipe? If it's not the Windows one, just right-click the drive in Explorer and choose Format. If it's the Windows one, you'll need a Windows installation CD.
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| 12-31-2005 02:44 PM |
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ss2005
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O.P. RE: how do you wipe a hard drive?
cheers guys
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| 12-31-2005 02:45 PM |
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Supersonicdarky
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RE: RE: how do you wipe a hard drive?
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Originally posted by raceprouk
What drive to you want to wipe? If it's not the Windows one, just right-click the drive in Explorer and choose Format. If it's the Windows one, you'll need a Windows installation CD.
thats exactly what i said  |
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| 12-31-2005 02:57 PM |
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Jhrono
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RE: how do you wipe a hard drive?
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Originally posted by raceprouk
If it's the Windows one, you'll need a Windows installation CD.
Not necessarly if you don't want to install windows again, i guess |
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| 12-31-2005 02:59 PM |
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Supersonicdarky
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RE: how do you wipe a hard drive?
you can use the windows cd to format, but then cancel the installation
i forget how it's done because i haven't formatted in a while
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| 12-31-2005 03:01 PM |
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RaceProUK
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RE: how do you wipe a hard drive?
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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
thats exactly what i said
I know: I posted parallel to you 
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Originally posted by Johny
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Originally posted by raceprouk
If it's the Windows one, you'll need a Windows installation CD.
Not necessarly if you don't want to install windows again, i guess
True, but most do.
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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
you can use the windows cd to format, but then cancel the installation
i forget how it's done because i haven't formatted in a while
Or use the Recovery Console.
This post was edited on 12-31-2005 at 03:02 PM by RaceProUK.
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| 12-31-2005 03:01 PM |
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DJKAL
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RE: how do you wipe a hard drive?
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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
either Dban - Whipes all drives clean
is there anyway to confine that 1 just one drive? "You don't sleep, you defragment!" |
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| 12-31-2005 03:51 PM |
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Supersonicdarky
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RE: how do you wipe a hard drive?
i dont think so, but if you want to wipe the windows drive and leave the other one, just disconnect the drives that you don't want cleaned until its done, then reconnect
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| 12-31-2005 04:14 PM |
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