Clean a Hard Drive?

Just your personal files? Just find them and delete them or transfer them to another drive. If you are also talking about programs then you can use add/remove programs to uninstall programs but be careful as some programs are drivers for the hardware in your system.
 
johnb35 said:
Just your personal files? Just find them and delete them or transfer them to another drive. If you are also talking about programs then you can use add/remove programs to uninstall programs but be careful as some programs are drivers for the hardware in your system.
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Let me put it like this I have 800 Gb to go thought to delete and that'a lot I was wondering if there was a easier way around.
 
What computer do you have? Is it store bought or custom built? What operating system?
 
HP's have a system recovery partition that you boot into to reinstall windows. Pretty sure its the F11 button on bootup.
 
Usually you can just reinstall Windows. Once you get to the part where you choose the drive you can just dump the previous partition. Then Windows will create it's own and install, none of your previous files will be referenced on the drive (and the subsequent data will be overwritten over time).
 
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