Whats the best way to format my HDD? To bring it back to "as new" so I can sell it.
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Whats the best way to format my HDD? To bring it back to "as new" so I can sell it.
I would personally use Partition Magic
If you are selling a HDD that you have already been using, then formatting isn't what you want to do.
You want to wipe it clean.
I like KillDisk.
Let the new owner format it to his/her liking.
Just get the old MS-DOS disk out, do FDISK & kill all partions & remake :P
oh i'am twenty years behind lol :P
Partion magic sounds good
what does killdisk do? does it like keep righting over the info you have on your disk over and over until it is unrecoverable?Quote:
Originally posted by clocker@28 January 2004 - 10:33
If you are selling a HDD that you have already been using, then formatting isn't what you want to do.
You want to wipe it clean.
I like KillDisk.
Let the new owner format it to his/her liking.
that's the idea.Quote:
Originally posted by ROSSCO_2004@28 January 2004 - 11:17
what does killdisk do? does it like keep righting over the info you have on your disk over and over until it is unrecoverable?
giving somebody your hard drive after a simple reformat would be like... giving away your diary, thinking that they won't be able to read it if you just use a pencil to draw a big X on every page. :lol: