How Do I Delete My Hardrive?

[Southerncentralrain]

I am going to give my computer away and want to delet everything on it. Can anybody help?
Thanks,

SCR

 

[TwinkleToes77]

format it

 

[loup garou]

Oh...my...god.....

 

[Slacker]

Originally posted by: werk
Oh...my...god.....

Hey, at least he is giving it away.........

 

[Southerncentralrain]

how do I format it?

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Slacker

Originally posted by: werk
Oh...my...god.....

Hey, at least he is giving it away.........

LMAO! Good point.

 

[geno]

Hey guys, when you're done helping him, can you help me fix my internet? It's broken

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: Southerncentralrain
how do I format it?

i dunno what OS you using but go to MS-DOS, type "format c:" assuming c: is your harddrive's label. it's easy.

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Format wont do jack sh|t if somebody was determined to get old data off that drive.

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: geno
Hey guys, when you're done helping him, can you help me fix my internet? It's broken

lol cmon, quit making fun of him... he needs help

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

Hold the hard drive up to your forehead and say "ERASE!" 10 times in a row. Then go into DOS (Which stands for "Digital orientating software") and type format. Format realigns all the magnetic particles into a reconizeable format, hence the name format. Be sure to defrag it after you are done, cause centrifugal force spins the particles out to the edge and you can have a hard drive crash.

That simple.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Xiety

Originally posted by: geno
Hey guys, when you're done helping him, can you help me fix my internet? It's broken

lol cmon, quit making fun of him... he needs help

Well then perhaps he should've posted in the correct forum.

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
Format wont do jack sh|t if somebody was determined to get old data off that drive.

i am sure he is not giving it away to FBI or something

 

[Southerncentralrain]

I didn't mean to offend anybody. What forum should I be in? I am using XP and I can not find how to get to MS DOS to type format C:. Thanks.

SCR

 

[CrowDog]

Originally posted by: Monel Funkawitz
Hold the hard drive up to your forehead and say "ERASE!" 10 times in a row. Then go into DOS (Which stands for "Digital orientating software") and type format. Format realigns all the magnetic particles into a reconizeable format, hence the name format. Be sure to defrag it after you are done, cause centrifugal force spins the particles out to the edge and you can have a hard drive crash.

That simple.

LMAO

 

[Yossarian]

Norton systemworks has an option to blank a HD, it will write 0's and 1's to the entire drive as many times as you want.

 

[GigaCluster]

Get a DOS boot disk. Search Google for IBM's "zap" and "wipe" utilities. Zap wipes the MBR, while wipe wipes the first several gigabytes of the hard drive. That's the easiest way.

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: Southerncentralrain
I didn't mean to offend anybody. What forum should I be in? I am using XP and I can not find how to get to MS DOS to type format C:. Thanks.

SCR

hehe it's ok, you should go to start menu, programs, accesories, then MS-DOS Promt, then of course "format c:".

That should help ya.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Xiety

Originally posted by: Southerncentralrain
I didn't mean to offend anybody. What forum should I be in? I am using XP and I can not find how to get to MS DOS to type format C:. Thanks.

SCR

hehe it's ok, you should go to start menu, programs, accesories, then MS-DOS Promt, then of course "format c:".

That should help ya.

You can't format from a prompt within XP.

This is exactly why SCR should ask this question in another forum...

 

[Southerncentralrain]

Thanks, I did that and it says:

"They type of the file system is FAT32.
Enter current volume label for drive C:"

Do you know what I should put?

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Xiety

Originally posted by: Southerncentralrain
I didn't mean to offend anybody. What forum should I be in? I am using XP and I can not find how to get to MS DOS to type format C:. Thanks.

SCR

hehe it's ok, you should go to start menu, programs, accesories, then MS-DOS Promt, then of course "format c:".

That should help ya.

You can't format from a prompt within XP.

This is exactly why SCR should ask this question in another forum...

oh he got XP.. didnt see it....aight that won't work, but you can try this
find a windows 98 boot disk, boot the system from that disk, choose cd rom support, that will take you to DOS, then type format C and that should help you. follow the directions.

 

[Turkish]

Also, try this website

 

[rh71]

I worked in an audio tape dubbing center while in college. We had to wipe a lot of tapes before redubbing for students for language classes.

A couple of seconds with that magnet and all audio "data" was gone. That thing was schweeeeet.