Re: removing personal data

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What I recommend is that you format the drive, reinstall the system and
patches and then defrag the drive. After that, overwrite the "blank" area
with software such as:

Eraser: http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ Freeware that overwrites the "blank"
area on a
hard drive.

You never know where there might be personal data stored so by formatting
and overwriting the existing system data, you safeguard against inadvertent
disclosure. The "blank" area still contains data that can be retrieved with
inexpensive software so you have to overwrite the blank area as well.

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP 1997 - 2007


"barney31" <barney31@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A97F8981-E33A-4820-B52F-5F8AA54977F6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I know that just deleting data does not totally remove the data from my
hard
drive. My question is, is there any software to remove this data
permanently,
as I am giving my computer to charity. Thank you for any suggestions.


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