This would be an admirable thing if it weren't for the fact that she's giving it to sister. :)
Thanks Sorin Sorin Srbu wrote:
Ray Costanzo <> scribbled on Thursday, April 24, 2008 1:29 PM: Admirable that somebody might want to actually do this! Dban is the way to go. Be aware that it might take a while to wipe it using the standard wipe, the DoD one. A simple one-pass wipe will take about one hour, depending on how fast the hd is. See http://dban.sourceforge.net/. Download the iso and burn it to a cd and boot from it. Voilá. And, it's free too! 8-D HTH.Hi list, A friend of mine has a Dell Inspiron laptop that she intends to give away, but she wants to zero-out the hard drive before doing so, as she's not comfortably with just a normal format. Does anyone know how to do this? In my googling, I keep coming across a GWSCAN tool, but it seems that the GW stands for Gateway, so I don't know if I should recommend that. Any ideas?
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