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How do I totally wipe my Hard Drive, my laptops broken.?
Hello there, can someone tell me how I can fix this problem without forking out $$$ for it.
I'm going to buy a 2.5" SATA enclosure tomorrow, and I'd like to know, how can I wipe the hard drive blank or back to factory condition seeing as my laptop is unoperational.
I've ordered a MacBook Pro so I need to get my old laptop files over using an Enclosure, BUT i'm going to need to sell my old laptop + hard drive so is there anyway I can delete or reset my hard drive.
For example, when I plug in the enclosure, could I click 'C:/' then highlight the folders like 'Users','Program Files','System' and just hit delete and be done with it?
Thanks.
BTW, it's a HP Touchsmart TX2-1015AU.
320GB SATA HDD, 2GB Ram, 2.2GHz Turion X2.
Please also note, the restore files are on the hard drive or secondary one, is there anyway I can protect these when I format it so Vista can be restored on there?
2 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Download dan's boot and nuke. Just google it. This will wipe the hard drive to a state that nothing can be recovered from it.
Erasing the contents from windows does not erase the content on the drive. It can still be recovered with the right software.
- Mike MclainLv 41 decade ago
Your question poses many more issues that must be explained before you ca get an answer/ As far as saving files and formatting a disk, IMPOSSIBLE.
Formatting wipes out everything.
