Reformatting

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Craig

I just reformatted C-drive and XP pro was re-installed.
Then, how can I reformat D: drive.
My purpose to delete any confidential data on D-drive.
Reformatting probably permanently remove those files.

Satoshi
 
Greetings --

Right-click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management (Also available
from Start > Run > mmc.exe), right-click on the target drive or
partition and select Format.

Bruce Chambers

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If you really want to delete all the data on D: that's really important, then you should consider zeroing the drive. This will write zeros and ones on the drive, deleting any important data that you don't want anyone getting. You should do this if you are planning to give/sell the drive, or giving away the computer. If you are gonig to reuse the hard drive yourself, just reformat it a couple of times and that should do it.
 
then you should consider "zeroing the drive". This will write zeros and
ones on the drive, deleting any important data that

I am interesting this process. How can zero the D-drive? I would very
much appreciate it if you could elaborate a little more. I am sure that a
lot of people would be interested in this proces.. Please enlighten me.
Satoshi
 
Hi Bruce,

Thanks for the information.
Which is better between WipeDrive 2.2.1 and East Tec Eraser?

Satoshi
 
Greetings --

I'm not familiar with East Tec Eraser, so I cannot judge. One
weakness of WipeDrive that's just occurred to me that may be relevant
to you is that it cannot wipe a single partition on a hard drive; it
wipes the _entire_ physical hard drive. This means you'd need to
reinstall WinXP again. If you can find something that wipes
individual partitions, you might want to go that way.

Myself, unless I was turning the computer over to an unknown
entity, or someone with advanced computer and data recovery skills,
I'd probably be content with using WinXP's Disk Management utility to
delete the existing logical drive and it's partition. I'd then reboot
and create a new extended partition and logical drive in it's place,
and then format the new logical drive. (Using the "full" format
option, rather than the "quick" format.)

Bruce Chambers

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