dbjazz wrote:
I have always "wiped" the hard drive, which restores it to factory specs, and donated the computer (to church, school, club, community center, even a local small business, etc.). Your operating system should have an easy procedure for wiping the drive.
Formatting or partitioning a HD in Windows using the native tools won’t necessarily offer protection from a skilled hacker. You need an application that will write 0s to every single memory location such as Dban
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