Disposing of XP Netbook
Someone might get some good our of a working netbook, but obviously I want to remove any personal information. It has no CD/DVD drive. Is there a formatting option which will still boot up?
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TomG2 wrote:
Discarding a netbook with a cracked screen and no operating system makes perfectly good sense to me.
A detail that was left out of your previous posts, or I must have missed it? In which case, I would also just send it off for recycling. And would not have even taken the time to post the other info.
In the future, if concerned about your personnel info by thinking that a factory restore alone with wipe out all your data, is not the case. You should do a secure wipe first. Then do a factory restore.
Even if a factory restore includes a full format, nothing more than a quick format with a surface scan, it does not erase all your personnel data that hasn't been written over.
