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I'm probably going to be returning my school laptop here soon. How do I wipe the harddrive completely clean with reinstalling the OS?

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Monday, 9 February 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

reformat it?

― Kingfish Funyun (Kingfish), Monday, 9 February 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

isn't the same thing as reinstalling the OS?
(i don't have the disc to this with)

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm. not necessarily. reinstalling can be messy, and leave incriminating evidence.

― Kingfish Funyun (Kingfish), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Racist!

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.osric.com/~jeremy/lambertpost.jpg

― Kingfish Funyun (Kingfish), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

why is it that "PC" still registers as "politically correct" to me? that's so 90s.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Monday, 9 February 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

If you can get your hands on a copy of Norton Utilities there's a CleanSweep program in it that may help. Dumping all the caches, deleting My Documents and going though directory by directory looking for files you may have put on there should be good enough. After that defrag it and use a utility to wipe the free space clean (like this one) and you should be fine. At this point go through it one more time!

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 9 February 2004 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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