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Fonz |
posted on 12th Feb 08 at 11:45 |
restore factory settings cd boot disk? | |
drax |
posted on 11th Feb 08 at 22:39 |
:) ;) :thumbs: | |
_Allan_ |
posted on 11th Feb 08 at 21:07 |
Drax I didn't say it can't be done :o but I doubt the people with specialist equipment or the time and money to spend looking on an average users desktop unless there was a legal issue etc.. I doubt any software solution can do this. You need an electon microscope or something and I don't know too many people with them. | |
drax |
posted on 11th Feb 08 at 19:13 |
In that case there is a toaster orbiting mars, I believe you should check it out. | |
_Allan_ |
posted on 11th Feb 08 at 08:47 |
quote: It doesn't say he's formatted it either. Your original message said is he mad for selling a PC with a hardrive in. I was mearly pointing out that if had been zero'd and formatted several times it would be difficult to recover any worth while data. | |
drax |
posted on 11th Feb 08 at 08:13 |
Ive recovered data from years back by accident whilst looking for files that I accidentally deleted, on a drive thats been formatted countless times. Where does it say he has zero'd it | |
_Allan_ |
posted on 11th Feb 08 at 07:32 |
quote: I have with no issues unless the buyer had close links with someone in CSI I doubt anything interesting can be recovered from a drive that has been zero'd and formatted twice by the average user. | |
drax |
posted on 10th Feb 08 at 23:42 |
You're selling a pc and keeping the hard drive in?.... | |
ChrisBoom |
posted on 10th Feb 08 at 22:39 |
Its done now anyway, its pretty much bare windows now, bar a few programs that il be useful for the next owner, CS2 etc :cool: | |
drax |
posted on 10th Feb 08 at 22:20 |
You can reinstall windows, ontop of itself, it just deletes everything in the my documents / startups stuff | |
ChrisBoom |
posted on 10th Feb 08 at 22:07 |
quote: Well, most of that was sorting all my documents into the right folders, the actual getting rid was only 30 mins topps :lol::lol: | |
andy1868 |
posted on 10th Feb 08 at 22:06 |
you spent 2 hours deleting everything off? you could have formatted and updated in that time :o | |
ChrisBoom |
posted on 10th Feb 08 at 22:04 |
quote: Its just I dont want to format windows too, everything is on one partition, I should of sectioned windows off from my files when I built the computer. | |
ed |
posted on 10th Feb 08 at 22:02 |
Although you'll be able to recover the data pretty easily. You're best of running a program called boot and nuke, then just re-installing Windows. | |
ed |
posted on 10th Feb 08 at 22:02 |
Just format the partition you want to fuck off then :) | |
ChrisBoom |
posted on 10th Feb 08 at 22:01 |
quote: Pretty much :lol: Just spent a good part of 2 hours just uninstalling everything, and moving all my files to one folder, ready to be written to DVD :) | |
PhilC |
posted on 10th Feb 08 at 21:32 |
So you just wanna leave it with windows? | |
ChrisBoom |
posted on 10th Feb 08 at 21:19 |
Im selling my desktop, and want to clear everything off it, but everything is on one partition, and I dont want to format the lot. |