-- Posted by giddytoads 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 -- Posted by shadowpool 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. -- Posted by matto 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! -- Posted by mikeyp123 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. -- Posted by rex reed at 9:34 am on June 25, 2008 ha ha ha..a damp cloth should do it.. -- Posted by ralili at 9:36 am on June 25, 2008 Tools... you can figure it out from there. -- Posted by golivewire12 at 9:45 am on June 25, 2008 with a cloth -- Posted by acmilanfan3 at 9:48 am on June 25, 2008 Kill disk will delete everything