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As some of you fellas know folks give me old computers I fix them and give them to the students who have none at home.
Some folks give me computers with HD removed for security but most just give me the Computer "As is" asking the I clean the HD before I give the computer to the kids.
I had a program called "Clean-up" that I used along with Spy-bot, in order to save the basic OS.
Of late, I have just been reformatting with Fedora 11 and I figured that the reformatting removed any data on the HD, so my word was good.
Of late I have been reading that even reformat ed HDs can be read..this creates a problem.
How can I promise to "clean the HD''if I don't know if it is clean.
Are they any programs that will completely, for sure, wipe the HD..I have two computers and 5 HDs sitting in the garage (and school is opening) but I cannot use them if they are not clean and I cannot afford nor can the school to buy 10 or 20 new HD per year.
I was thinking that reformatting say 5 times may do it?????
karl
Some folks give me computers with HD removed for security but most just give me the Computer "As is" asking the I clean the HD before I give the computer to the kids.
I had a program called "Clean-up" that I used along with Spy-bot, in order to save the basic OS.
Of late, I have just been reformatting with Fedora 11 and I figured that the reformatting removed any data on the HD, so my word was good.
Of late I have been reading that even reformat ed HDs can be read..this creates a problem.
How can I promise to "clean the HD''if I don't know if it is clean.
Are they any programs that will completely, for sure, wipe the HD..I have two computers and 5 HDs sitting in the garage (and school is opening) but I cannot use them if they are not clean and I cannot afford nor can the school to buy 10 or 20 new HD per year.
I was thinking that reformatting say 5 times may do it?????
karl
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