Re: Selling off an old comput   
     By: Kurt Weiske to Matt Munson on Thu Feb 17 2011 10:43 am   
      
    > Are you worried about the information on the disk? I'd suggest running   
    > Darik's boot and nuke disk (http://www.dban.org) or any other wiping tool   
    > first. Depending on the hardware, it shouldn't take more than 30 minutes or   
    > so, and any data will be difficult to recover off the drive.   
   I am hoping that reformating the hard drive would just offer some basic   
   deletion. and maybe delete hidden directories that might of had porn or warez   
   on it.   
      
      
    > 2. Wipe the drive, re-install Windows and update it to the latest/greatest.   
   That is what I am planning on doing.   
   And maybe add firefox and thunderbird to the install as well, and have the   
   current windows patches on it too.   
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