Windows 7 - Format is not enough...?
Asked By typeadam
04-Oct-08 11:53 PM
I currently have a Vista Home Premium notebook w/ 1 hdd that I'm
selling. The hdd has a hidden partition which has all the recovery stuff
on it that the notebook mfr has included.
I'm selling my notebook and want to know what is the best way to
completely erase all data on the drive but NOT on the recovery
partition.
This way, my data will not be recoverable, but keeping the recovery
partition will allow me to start the recovery program so that it will
reinstall everything back to factory spec and the person that bought it
will see the initial Vista screen upon first boot up.
Thank you,
AP
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Ramesh Kumar MVP replied...
Boot with WinPE or Vista DVD OR attach the HDD on different PC.
Open* Command Prompt *and run *DISKPART*
Exexcute the following command.
It cleans all stuff....
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Ghostintheshell replied...
typeadam <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote the following in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:53:32 GMT
This might be worth looking into.
http://www.dban.org/
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typeadam replied...
Thanks for eveyone's input!
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