I’m throwing away an old PC - what’s the quickest and easiest way to delete EVERYTHING from it, even the OS?
June 19th, 2008 | by FS |Zephyr inquired:
^ that is a good deal settles!
How do you können vollständig gelöscht non removable disk without special software? I möchte dafà ¼ r ensure that no persönlichen data können möglicherweise, and also dafà ¼ r ensure that nobody könnte it, without völlig the operating system installs again.
^ that is a good deal settles!
How do you können vollständig gelöscht non removable disk without special software? I möchte dafà ¼ r ensure that no persönlichen data können möglicherweise, and also dafà ¼ r ensure that nobody könnte it, without völlig the operating system installs again.
3 Responses to “I’m throwing away an old PC - what’s the quickest and easiest way to delete EVERYTHING from it, even the OS?”
By geniepiper on Jun 19, 2008 | Reply
Format the hard drive.
By Circuit Daemon on Jun 22, 2008 | Reply
The hard drive in pieces.
The data to stay there hidden you could simply grab hammer and brek the hard drive in pieces.
By Jerry Lee on Jun 24, 2008 | Reply
A more-advanced OS may not *let* you format, but you can give it a try.
If you took the hard drive apart, and heated the metal to red-hot, the heat would take the metal above the “fermi temperature” and completely randomize (erase) everything on it. Also, exposure to dust and oxidation would probably render everything unrecoverable anyway.