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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2012Coleman wrote:
This is good advice, but you could also just reinstall the operating system which will completly wipe the HD.
For the purposes of giving the laptop to grandchildren, this would do the trick. For donating or selling the laptop to a third party, I would not do this without first wiping over the drive data. Though re-installation of the OS generally involves re-formatting the drive, that does not guarantee that data cannot be extracted. There are many tools for recovering data from formatted discs.
Plus, besides reinstalling the OS, one must also apply all service packs, updates, and security patches. And reinstall any appropriate software. Time consuming to say the least.
