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Does formatting wipe out everything? [message #84813]

Sat, 19 May 2007 10:49

Deej [4]

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Registered: January 2007

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I've got an old Dell laptop here that I used for a few years. It's had a
number of things on the HD over time, including some work files with
confidential info (noting that could ever be used by anyone really, but
needs to be wipedd nonetheless. Will formatting do this? I have heard that
ther4e are some *wipe* proggies that will basically render any data
unrecoverable short of the stuff that NSA uses.

Thanks,

Deej

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		Does formatting wipe out everything? By: Deej [4] on Sat, 19 May 2007 10:49
		Re: Does formatting wipe out everything? By: xpam_mark on Sat, 19 May 2007 11:40
		Re: Does formatting wipe out everything? By: John [1] on Sat, 19 May 2007 11:55
		Re: Does formatting wipe out everything? By: John [1] on Sat, 19 May 2007 15:08
		Re: Does formatting wipe out everything? By: Deej [4] on Sat, 19 May 2007 11:49
		Re: Does formatting wipe out everything? By: xpam_mark on Sat, 19 May 2007 12:07
		Re: Does formatting wipe out everything? By: Deej [4] on Sat, 19 May 2007 11:52
		Re: Does formatting wipe out everything? By: erlilo on Sat, 19 May 2007 22:24
		Re: Does formatting wipe out everything? By: Deej [4] on Sat, 19 May 2007 22:36
		Re: Does formatting wipe out everything? By: erlilo on Sat, 19 May 2007 23:35
		Re: Does formatting wipe out everything? By: Edna Sloan on Sun, 20 May 2007 08:14
		Re: Does formatting wipe out everything? By: Neil on Sun, 20 May 2007 08:59
		Re: Does formatting wipe out everything? By: Edna Sloan on Mon, 21 May 2007 17:17
		Re: Does formatting wipe out everything? By: Neil on Mon, 21 May 2007 19:28
		Re: Does formatting wipe out everything? By: Edna Sloan on Tue, 22 May 2007 16:32
		Re: Does formatting wipe out everything? By: TCB on Sun, 20 May 2007 21:02

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