[W126 Coupe] Off Topic - computers

[Jonathan]

Mister McGoo wrote:

> Quick question for the world.

>  

> I am going to be giving my computer away (3 years old, XP) and want to 

> know of any of the "cleaners" (Window Washer, Discscrubber, etc) 

> actually DO prevent future access to all the "deleted" files on the 

> hard drive, or are they scams?  Does anybody have any recommendations?

>  

> -Bellamy

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I'd go ahead and format it a few times..norton used to have a 
'government wipe' which wrote 0's then 1's on a drive 7X over..  That 
aside, large electro magnets do a pretty good job as well;-)

Jonathan


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