Clearing down a laptop
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trooperiziz

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Thursday 15th March 2007
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Last day at my current job today. (Woohoo!)

I need to give back my company laptop and obviously want to get rid of all the animal porn etc... What's the best free tool out there to wipe all personal stuff on a windows xp installation?

SGirl

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trooperiziz

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Thursday 15th March 2007
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I think that approach may end up with me buying a broken laptop from the company

touching cloth

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mcflurry

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284 months

Thursday 15th March 2007
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format c:

trooperiziz

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Thursday 15th March 2007
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Should I have mentioned that I still need it to work afterwards?

SGirl

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Thursday 15th March 2007
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trooperiziz said:
Should I have mentioned that I still need it to work afterwards?


Neil, YHM.

_dobbo_

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Thursday 15th March 2007
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If you have the system recovery disks that came iwth the laptop I'd use those.

annodomini2

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trooperiziz

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Thanks all, I should be clean as a whistle by the end of the day.

dtmpower

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Thursday 15th March 2007
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mcflurry said:
format c:


Thats doesn't really clean it - a 'Boot and Nuke' cd would be a better bet.

carrera2

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Thursday 15th March 2007
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SGirl said:
trooperiziz said:
Should I have mentioned that I still need it to work afterwards?


Neil, YHM.


Any chance of a copy of that mail SGirl? I need to do this to an old laptop too before passing it on...

Plotloss

67,280 posts

301 months

Thursday 15th March 2007
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Delete the Partition

SGirl

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Thursday 15th March 2007
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carrera2 said:
SGirl said:
trooperiziz said:
Should I have mentioned that I still need it to work afterwards?


Neil, YHM.


Any chance of a copy of that mail SGirl? I need to do this to an old laptop too before passing it on...



Sure, no problem. YHM. Or at least, you will have in 2 minutes. hehe

carrera2

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Thursday 15th March 2007
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SGirl said:
carrera2 said:
SGirl said:
trooperiziz said:
Should I have mentioned that I still need it to work afterwards?


Neil, YHM.


Any chance of a copy of that mail SGirl? I need to do this to an old laptop too before passing it on...



Sure, no problem. YHM. Or at least, you will have in 2 minutes. hehe


Thanks S.