Is there a disk to wipe my hard drive for the dell 2400 series desktop?

Question

If my computer did not come with a CD to erase my hard drive, is there anyway to erase it.

Also, for some reason I am unable to erase the Norton anti-virus that came with my dell 2400 series. When i try to uninstall Norton it tells me that I need to sign in as a Supervisor. My account is already set to administrator.

I have one more problem? when I tried to install Norton 2008, I was stuck again with an error saying that my firewall was blocking installation. I turned off my firewall and the same problem arose.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank You

Answer 1

With regard to the CD, contact DELL SUPPORT, they usually have a restore partition or you are meant to make OWN recovery discs I believe

Norton is locked because the ADMIN account has not got the proveliidges needed, again ASK DELL SUPPORT how they set up a machine, might have another account they can help you into, alsought restoring to factory settings will wipe all this anyway.

Answer 2

DBAN will erase your hard drive, but then you will have no operating system , programs, or data. If that's what you want:

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

If you are talking about a restore CD, you probably have to burn it yourself. Open up "help" and look for a restore CD wizard.