In an age where data security is paramount, ensuring that your personal information is completely and irretrievably deleted before selling, donating, or discarding a laptop is crucial. Whether you're upgrading to a new device or simply look to declutter your workspace, understanding the safest...
Hello, my goal is to replace all bytes on a disk with 0s with a single pass. I have done this many times, but yesterday, I read that I can do it faster with a larger block size 4096. My understanding is, if I use Diskpart or other terminal program to format the entire disk slowly, it will...
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I am trying to sell a computer to someone else, and want to more or less sanitize my personal info from the computer. I secure-deleted the files with sensitive info, uninstalled my financial software, and then ran a program like Eraser that claimed to effectively wipe all free space. I...
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at windows 8 i deleted some files and moved to recycled bin. after that I made recycled bin empty
but as I heard there still are ways to recover deleted files.
which program can I use to wipe the deleted data without option to recover it? i know revo uninstaller is good for programs...
So I am wiping my hard drive by booting with the Windows disk and going to command prompt. I successfully formatted drive C:, about 100 MB of system files and D:, about 500 GB or the bulk of my hard rive. These were the same hard drive, but separate partitions apparently. In Windows it just...
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Ever since I recovered from the virus/trojan attack in December, my PC hasn't been the same. I keep getting a pop-up from malware-bytes and spy-bot about a smitfraud c.generic and svchost.exe problems. Needless to say, there is something happening that I can not put my finger on and realize...
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I have been reading about erasing my hard drive as I have to exchange my PC with a company.
If it is not asking too much, could someone outline how to do this?
All the tutorials seem to assume the program is ready to go.
I think I am supposed to download to my desktop the particular...
In the past when I've upgraded from one OS to another, I've always had issues down the road so with Windows 7, I only want to do a fresh install if necessary. I found the following info about Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade from Microsoft and I'm trying to make certain that I understand it...