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Is there any way to clean a computer of personal information if the clean-up disk doesn't work?
I have an old computer, but a fairly good running computer that I would like to sell. It contains a lot of personal information. On past computers I have always used the start-up disk to clean up the computer to the original settings and get rid of personal information. However, this computer's disk does not work. Is there any way I can clean up the computer in order to sell it. I have been told that all disks are computer specific and if the disk doesn't work there isn't much I can do. Other than selling the parts off of it.,..I don't know what more I can do. I hate to pay a computer repair place, but is that my only option?
3 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Format the HDD
then load the OS with the disk ????
Or format wile reloading the OS
- 1 decade ago
Use Darik's Boot and Nuke
Use the most thorough disk erasure settings that DBAN offers.
If someone is able to access data that was once written on that hard drive after you've run DBAN on it with the most thorough disk erasure settings, then that person probably said "Let there be light", "Let there be a a firmament to divide the waters above the firmament from the waters below the firmament", "Let the waters under the firmament be gathered together and let dry land appear", and other such profound things. You couldn't have hidden the data from that person anyway.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
you could physically remove the disk.
you or the buyer would have to buy a new one, but that might be cheaper than paying someone to erase it.
