How to completely clean HD?

fishing4fun2 · 04-13-2008, 01:36 PM

How do you completely wipe out anything on hard drive and start over with a different new retail OS?

fishing4fun2 · 04-13-2008, 02:09 PM

How about Best way to Clear Hdd and NOT keep OS???

Tumbleweed36 · 04-13-2008, 02:23 PM

Dban Complete Disk Eraser

Please note: Be sure you have all disks unhooked that you do not want formatted and cleaned, because this program while great has the capability to erase multiple disks at one time if hooked to the computer.

fishing4fun2 · 04-14-2008, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Tumbleweed36

Dban Complete Disk Eraser

Please note: Be sure you have all disks unhooked that you do not want formatted and cleaned, because this program while great has the capability to erase multiple disks at one time if hooked to the computer.

Thanks for the info...what about if I can't connect to internet on that computers Hdd i want to clean?

Tumbleweed36 · 04-14-2008, 04:50 PM

Download the program and put it on a disk. Then, away you can go without connecting to the internet.

fishing4fun2 · 04-14-2008, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Tumbleweed36

Download the program and put it on a disk. Then, away you can go without connecting to the internet.

Thanks for your help, I wish i would have done it that way but someone told me in another fourm to just call microsoft and tell them that there windows update knocked out my internet, thats why i wanted to clean the hard disk and start over, my wireless card inside computer is not compatatable with 64 bit and the updates made everything 64 bit.

So i called microsoft and they had me do a restore, so i did but know i see it didn't wipe it out it just backed it up to before i did the updates, so now i got the internet there but as i look at my hard drive i see that there is now twice as less space avaliable that before i did the restore, that kind of sucks, when i did that it must of saved a complete copy of vista somewhere and its using up hard disk space, I would like to get rid of it if i could.

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