I am ready to give my desk top to a friend of my best friend. This guy is a computer wizard and I DO NOT want him browsing around my hard drive to try to find any info stored in there. I do not know this guy very well and I want to be careful, as my SS#, bank accounts etc. may be accessed through the hard drive. Can he access that info and if so, how can clean that info?
2006-07-19 03:23:04 · 10 answers · asked by A G 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Use this tool. It will erase everything and it's free!
2006-07-19 03:29:00 · answer #1 · answered by mbishop1113 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best thing to do would be to format the computer hard drive and give to him as blank. You can do this simply with a boot disk or boot cd such as a windows cd. During the process of installation of windows you have the option to delete the exisiting partition and recreate a new one which is then formatted. If this is a major brand pc (like dell or gateway or hp) then simply insert the restore cds (if you have them) and perform a restore on the machine. This will wipe all information and recreate as it was when purchased.
If you have none of these then you can get access to a boot disk from the internet. www.bootdisk.com has files you can download to create a boot disk with format on the disk. One booted to dos you simply run fdisk and delete the existing partition and create a new one. Then reboot and from dos again run format. Or just run format the first time as will wipe the drive
2006-07-19 03:30:04 · answer #2 · answered by hardirish 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
even doing all those things there are programs that can still see files after formating. If they want it bad enough you can take the hard drive apart and still find the data. It resides in layers on the plates in the hard drives. I've heard in labs they can recover data after several formats. There are programs that write random numbers over the hard drive several times and if they want it bad enough they can still get it out, but it's very expensive. If you really don't want someone to see what's on your drive, then you destroy it. I know intelligence agencies and then police can find about anything that was once on there.
2006-07-19 03:31:57 · answer #3 · answered by Ben S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use System Mechanic 6 Professional. Drive scrubber is included with it. You can use it to create a drive scrubber floppy and then using the floppy you can scrub your drives. If you need a keygen, visit crackserver. Add a .com at the end of the name.
2006-07-19 03:29:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anindya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do a few Low-level formating on the hard drive.
Check out your drive's manufacturer website for the tool.
Example, for Maxtor disk:
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346068/?channelpath=%2Fen_us%2FSupport%2FSoftware+Downloads%2FView+By+Category%2FDesktop+Storage%2FDiamondMax+Family%2FUtilities&downloadID=19
2006-07-19 03:26:53 · answer #5 · answered by cho 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-01 22:02:38 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
re install your operating system and he wont be able to read anything you have stored on your pc. Insert your disc and follow the instructions
2006-07-19 03:28:19 · answer #7 · answered by minesanarf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Purchase a very strong magnet.
2006-07-19 03:26:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are programs you can buy for that, they will erase everything from your computer
but i would just reformat and reinstall the operating system
if you have the cd for it
2006-07-19 03:27:36 · answer #9 · answered by ian6868 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a hdd cleaner such as paragon
2006-07-19 03:28:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋