Quoting Post Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic How do u wipe ur comp? Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] Quote: from [m]matto[/m] at 9:34 am on June 25, 2008[quote]Quote: from [m]shadowpool[/m] at 9:33 am on June 25, 2008[quote]http://dban.sourceforge.net/[/quote]I just discovered this very recently.  It's a great tool! :smile: The reason that this is preferable to a reformat, as you may gather from shadowpool's response, is that this tool overwrites your hdd's data with a bunch of cryptic stuff.  Reformatting actually leaves all of your data on there! [/quote] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post giddytoads Posted at 9:32 am on June 25, 2008 my laptops windows xp professional and i need to know hot to wipe it so nothing can be recovered off of it pls thanks x

Replies acmilanfan3 Posted at 9:48 am on June 25, 2008 Kill disk will delete everything golivewire12 Posted at 9:45 am on June 25, 2008 with a cloth ralili Posted at 9:36 am on June 25, 2008 Tools... you can figure it out from there. rex reed Posted at 9:34 am on June 25, 2008 ha ha ha..a damp cloth should do it.. mikeyp123 Posted at 9:34 am on June 25, 2008 Windows recovery disk. As you boot up pc you'll see black screens with white text, look for a something like "Press any key to boot from disk" then it'll open up a reformat window. Its really really easy to follow tbh. matto Posted at 9:34 am on June 25, 2008 Quote: from shadowpool at 9:33 am on June 25, 2008 http://dban.sourceforge.net/ I just discovered this very recently.  It's a great tool! The reason that this is preferable to a reformat, as you may gather from shadowpool's response, is that this tool overwrites your hdd's data with a bunch of cryptic stuff.  Reformatting actually leaves all of your data on there! shadowpool Posted at 9:33 am on June 25, 2008 http://dban.sourceforge.net/ Download the CD version. Open your CD burning software and look for an option specifically for burning .iso files. There should be one. Use that to burn the .iso file to a disk. Put the disk in your computer, reboot, and the computer will hopefully boot from the disk. Then select the drives you wish to erase. Choose the pseudorandom erasure method and use 2-3 rounds. If you're trying to hide your data from the FBI or the NSA, use 15-30 rounds. This will take a while as your computer is generating cryptographically random data and repeatedly overwriting your hard drive with it. All 7 previous replies displayed.