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Wipe hard drive on old windows xp laptop - no CD Drive & no USB Boot support
I need to wipe an old laptop (one pass, all zeros will do).
The laptop is ancient and has:
Windows XP Professional installed as its sole os.
no USB boot support
no working CD drive
no hammer/drill
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my home dir is emptied by windows?
My notebook (xp) has recently broke down, and I moved its HDD to my desktop (xp) as a slave drive, to access my data. To work with more or less the same environment as before, I set the home dir of ...
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Wipe PC and reinstall Windows from upgrade disc?
My parents got a new computer. I'm going to prep their old one for sale.
So, first step of course is to reformat the hard drive and reinstall the OS. But, there's a potential problem: They installed ...
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How to wipe a hard drive so that it's safe to recycle (while keeping the recovery partition intact)
My aunt and grandparents have some computers that they want to get rid of, all of them have Windows XP and a recovery partition (which allows them to restore the computer to factory settings). So what ...
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