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HI newish to all this computer stuff. Had windows 98 on my computer bought a windows xp disc(told its much better) loaded it in the cd slot and ran the disc.Now I cant get anything at all to work, Im told the computer needs wiping clean altogether ? Is this easy ? would be very gratefull for your advice.
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In "My Computer," right-click the drive, select format, use all of the default settings (save for the label of the drive), ... Wiping Sensitive Data; One last option, for those of you who want to wipe your drive securely and do not want to reinstall Windows, is to use a third-party program to erase your hard drive for you.
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Information and help with formating and erasing the computer information and starting over. ... Place the bootable diskette or disc inside the computer and reboot to get to the DOS prompt. In some cases you may need to boot the computer with CD-ROM support or press a key to boot from the disk.
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Rob Wilson wrote: I want to sell my computer, how do I wipe the hard-drive? Every HD vendor has a utility to write 0's to the entire HD. If you are rather paranoid, you might try Eraser -- it is free and on the web, and does more extensive wiping than simple one-pass 0-writing.
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My computer is doing some crazy things. System files are missing, and it is just a mess. I have windows 98SE, and I would like to wipe everything off from my computer. And reinstall windows 98 SE. I have never done nothing like this, so I need step by step on what I need to do.
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Microsoft should default the "documents and settings" folders to a separate logical hard drive partition… Any security auditor will tell you that if any computer regardless of the operating system is rooted, the only trustworthy way of cleaning that computer is to wipe ... wiping infected PC's Adam Timmons | 04/05/06...
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Loughborough University Windows procedure for wiping computer data before sale, redistribution, or scrap (in line with the Data Protection Act). ... IT Services > About Us > Policies > Staff Computer Disposal > Windows procedure for wiping data...
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Loughborough University Procedure for wiping Macintosh computer data before sale, redistribution, or scrap (in line with the Data Protection Act). ... IT Services > About Us > Policies > Staff Computer Disposal > Macintosh procedure for wiping data...
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wiping your computer clean ; Wednesday, February 12, 2003 at 1:11 pm; Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum; Posted by jake (1 messages posted); After searhcing on the net for information on how to clean your computer history all I come up with is things to buy.
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