ChrisBoom
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Im selling my desktop, and want to clear everything off it, but everything is on one partition, and I dont want to format the lot.
Any ideas?
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PhilC
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So you just wanna leave it with windows?
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ChrisBoom
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quote:
Originally posted by PhilC
So you just wanna leave it with windows?
Pretty much 
Just spent a good part of 2 hours just uninstalling everything, and moving all my files to one folder, ready to be written to DVD 
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ed
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Just format the partition you want to fuck off then
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ed
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Although you'll be able to recover the data pretty easily. You're best of running a program called boot and nuke, then just re-installing Windows.
[Edited on 10-02-2008 by ed]
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ChrisBoom
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Originally posted by ed
Just format the partition you want to fuck off then
Its just I dont want to format windows too, everything is on one partition, I should of sectioned windows off from my files when I built the computer.
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andy1868
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you spent 2 hours deleting everything off? you could have formatted and updated in that time 
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ChrisBoom
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Originally posted by andy1868
you spent 2 hours deleting everything off? you could have formatted and updated in that time
Well, most of that was sorting all my documents into the right folders, the actual getting rid was only 30 mins topps
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drax
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You can reinstall windows, ontop of itself, it just deletes everything in the my documents / startups stuff
It might create backups, and could cause errors in the registery / driver conflicts though.
it is ALWAYS better to format the drive and do a fresh install. Saves alot of bother in the long run
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ChrisBoom
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Its done now anyway, its pretty much bare windows now, bar a few programs that il be useful for the next owner, CS2 etc 
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drax
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You're selling a pc and keeping the hard drive in?....
Are you mad?
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_Allan_
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Originally posted by drax
You're selling a pc and keeping the hard drive in?....
Are you mad?
I have with no issues unless the buyer had close links with someone in CSI I doubt anything interesting can be recovered from a drive that has been zero'd and formatted twice by the average user.
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drax
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Ive recovered data from years back by accident whilst looking for files that I accidentally deleted, on a drive thats been formatted countless times. Where does it say he has zero'd it
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_Allan_
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Originally posted by drax
Ive recovered data from years back by accident whilst looking for files that I accidentally deleted, on a drive thats been formatted countless times. Where does it say he has zero'd it
It doesn't say he's formatted it either. Your original message said is he mad for selling a PC with a hardrive in. I was mearly pointing out that if had been zero'd and formatted several times it would be difficult to recover any worth while data.
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drax
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In that case there is a toaster orbiting mars, I believe you should check it out.
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_Allan_
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Drax I didn't say it can't be done but I doubt the people with specialist equipment or the time and money to spend looking on an average users desktop unless there was a legal issue etc.. I doubt any software solution can do this. You need an electon microscope or something and I don't know too many people with them.
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drax
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Fonz
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restore factory settings cd boot disk?
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