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buddy1998

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I have a hp pavilion 762n desktop with windows home edition 2002 and I want to donate it to an elementry school. How do I erase the harddive?
 
Put the drive in another system and format it. Or you can use an install cd to format the drive.
 
The computer should have came with a recovery partition or reinstallation cd's. Just reinstall windows by doing a destructive restore or format the drive using the reinstallation cds. Check your documentation on how to reinstall windows for that particular system.
 
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Also, I wanted to let you know that formatting your drive does not remove your data. I own a data recovery company and have recovered data from 100s of formatted drives.
 
I know that, but for a normal user, no one will be able to figure out how to recover the data.
 
drive erase

Your probably right. But, if it was my personal data I would make sure it was gone. You never now who will end up with the computer.
 
rsh123 said:
Also, I wanted to let you know that formatting your drive does not remove your data. I own a data recovery company and have recovered data from 100s of formatted drives.
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Can you recover the data from a low lever format too? Just wanted to know. how about the programs like killdisk or something like that, can it be recover?
http://www.killdisk.com/

Thank you.
Paul
 
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