and if so, which are considered the best and also least harmful to a computer. After purging a computer of all information, how is a reliable check made to see that the computer is pristine after the purge?
2006-10-07 16:17:56 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
there are programs out there that will write nonsense data ont hardrives. They boot from a floppy or cd and wipe a drive of everything, multiple times. I'm sorry I can't quite remember the name of any of them at the moment. After a hard wipe like this your drive will be free of any recoverable data. Just reinstall your OS and it's %100 clean.
2006-10-07 16:26:15 · answer #1 · answered by Adam F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An erasure purely makes the area at present occupied attainable to overwriting, that's what human beings get perplexed approximately whilst they think of a few thing is rather 'deleted'. you ought to wipe a force to truly erase the practise. that being mentioned, only use upload do away with classes on top of issues panel and do away with each and every thing you do not use from that domicile windows function. lots safer than attempting a rebuild, in case you have in no way achieved a rebuild i does not recommend you are trying a cleanup that way. you will possibly ought to reinstall not purely the working equipment, yet each and every of the drivers for any hardware related the two inner and exterior. on account which you have not any disks, only use upload/do away with function.
2016-10-19 00:16:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're sure you want to do this, why not format the hard drive (a full format, not quick). Then, you will have to reinstall everything. I'm assuming you have backed up all files you created and want onto floppies or a flashdrive???
2006-10-07 17:35:08 · answer #3 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fdisk
2006-10-07 16:20:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋