Free PC Cleaners
Want to give our grandson old laptop & would like to clean the hard drive & delete files,What would be the best way to go about it?Thanks
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there are programs that remove data and would even give the NSA a hard time
the re-write the area multiple times, magnetically obliterating everything
just let it run for several days continuous, doing this over and over
of course these programs are NOT free
there are free programs, just not as good as the paid ones
How old is the grandson, and what will he be using the PC for
possibly the best Idea is a New hard drive, the same size or slightly larger
with a migration/transfer program
the windows OS and ONLY the NEW user ID can be moved to the new drive
the old drive with your data is removed from the PC and the new clean drive with only windows is installed in the PC
after confirming everything works and No problems, (wait two weeks) then destroy the old drive
the re-write the area multiple times, magnetically obliterating everything
just let it run for several days continuous, doing this over and over
of course these programs are NOT free
there are free programs, just not as good as the paid ones
How old is the grandson, and what will he be using the PC for
possibly the best Idea is a New hard drive, the same size or slightly larger
with a migration/transfer program
the windows OS and ONLY the NEW user ID can be moved to the new drive
the old drive with your data is removed from the PC and the new clean drive with only windows is installed in the PC
after confirming everything works and No problems, (wait two weeks) then destroy the old drive
