How do u wipe ur computer clean.?

Question

I dont wanna take it in. Hopely i can do it myself please give details. Yes i am Blonde but a hot one! lol

Answer 1

Use one of the following methods. These will overwrite all data on the hard drive.

DOD 522.220-M requires 3 overwrite passes
NSA requires 5 overwrite passes

Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) free
http://www.download.com/Darik-s-Boot-and-Nuke/3000-2092_4-10165154.html
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102-0.html?forumID=5&threadID=194873&messageID=2115918
"You can find out the manufacturer of your HD and then attempt to download the formatting tool created by that manufacturer for their HD's. Most HD Mnufactuer have a Zero Fill Low level formatting tool available to erase their HD products. This will clean any existing OS files from your system as well as any viruses other files etc.."

Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser (Free version/ $29.95 enhanced version)
http://www.killdisk.com/
Free version limited to 1 erasure pass and first hard drive.
Active@ KillDisk - Hard Drive Eraser is powerful and compact DOS software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. It's a hard drive and partition eraser utility.
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When you format enter "fdisk /mbr" to format the master boot record.
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6132_102-0.html?forumID=32&threadID=49909&messageID=593967

Reformat and install.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/winxp/install.mspx
http://www.whitecanyon.com/reformat-the-hard-drive-in-windows-xp.php
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/archive/l0910/32l10/32l10.asp

Answer 2

Yeah, Ray has it nailed. But I just wanted to say that I read "wipe your computer clean" as "wiping the computer screen clean". I thought "Well, it isn't really that hard. You just use a cloth." Then I started reading Ray's answer and was like "Jeeze, he's giving a lot of useless information for somebody that just wants to clean their computer." At that point it dawned on me what you really meant.

Even non-blonde people can have blonde moments.

Answer 3

If you want to completely remove all data and software from the hard drive, just reformat the drive using a Windows installation disk. If you want to make sure it's really, really gone (something you don't want found, perhaps) then use something like Darik's Boot and Nuke to erase the drive securely.

Answer 4

Hi. Hot or not you need a program, such as "sure delete" that will overwrite the data a minimum of 7 times (military standard) or more to minimize the chance of recovery of your data. http://www.pctools.com/privacy-guardian/?ref=Googlepg&gclid=CK6FguzIio4CFTyKOAodwlf8EA

Answer 5

or just take a hammer to the harddrive and kill it if you know what i mean