NLAlston
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I didn't know that this (Bombing) was the terminology for it, until an employee - at Best Buy - used it for what I was asking for.
The situation is that I am aiming to sell my computer, to aid in the purchase of another, more powerful one. The replaced hard drive, in present unit, is less than 6 months old, and reformatting is no security against critical file information being retrieved by someone else. Years ago, I remember having a Gateway desktop computer, and that I was beset with a vicious virus. Reformatting wouldn't serve to better the condition, and a gateway technician informed me that I would have to step up the game by writing 'zeroes' to the drive (what he referred to as a 'government wipe'). He verbalized, and even emailed the procedure to me, but I lost it - a good while back - and can't remember how to go about it.
Would anyone know how I could do this?
The situation is that I am aiming to sell my computer, to aid in the purchase of another, more powerful one. The replaced hard drive, in present unit, is less than 6 months old, and reformatting is no security against critical file information being retrieved by someone else. Years ago, I remember having a Gateway desktop computer, and that I was beset with a vicious virus. Reformatting wouldn't serve to better the condition, and a gateway technician informed me that I would have to step up the game by writing 'zeroes' to the drive (what he referred to as a 'government wipe'). He verbalized, and even emailed the procedure to me, but I lost it - a good while back - and can't remember how to go about it.
Would anyone know how I could do this?