Cleaning Your Hardisk

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I am getting ready to move into another computer but I need to remove all
information such as emails, etc. where do I have to go within Windows XP
directory to delete personnal information? All help will be greatly
appreciated.

Jim Bennett
 
Depending on your circumstances, do a clean install of Windows on the old
machine. Formatting the hard drive will pretty much wipe most everything.

Clean Install Windows
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

Windows XP Clean Installation - Partitioning and Formatting using Windows XP
CD
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/XPClean.htm

HOW TO Partition and Format a Hard Disk in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348

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Jim said:
I am getting ready to move into another computer but I need to remove all
information such as emails, etc. where do I have to go within Windows XP
directory to delete personnal information? All help will be greatly
appreciated.

Jim Bennett
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To protect your personal information and data from any future users
of average skills, you should, at the very least, format the hard drive.
If you wish to do a more thorough job of protecting your personal
data, WipeDrive
(http://www.whitecanyon.com/wipedrive-erase-hard-drive.php) meets U.S.
DoD standards for securely cleaning surplus unclassified hard drives,
and could be used before formatting and reinstalling the OS and
applications.



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Jim said:
thank you for the replies but, I was hopping to avoid reformating the hard
disk.
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Sorry, but if you really want to be sure that all of your personal
information is gone, formatting is the simplest of the possible
solutions. And even that is protection only from the computer user of
merely average skills. In addition to the normal data files (documents,
pictures, emails, etc.), there will be hundreds, if not thousands, of
temporary Internet files, cookies, and registry entries to be hunted
down and eliminated.


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