putting a PC back to day one

[worcestersauce]

I'm looking to sell a desktop PC (zoostorm 2gb) thats not very old and hardly used as laptop is used alot more.

I want to remove everything off this pc before selling i.e put it back to day one, so basically want to remove photos that the kids have put on there and some documents that the Mrs has on it.
Is this possible as i know people sell pc's on but how do you make sure info is removed like bank details and passwords etc etc ???

thanks guys (i know its not just as simple as "right click - delete) before anyone says... its windows 7 btw

thanks in advance

[krussell]

Hi, format your disk and reinstall your operating system,take you have original disks supplied with computer

[Shady]

download dareks boot and nuke, burn it to cd and run it.. its about the most powerful drive wiping s/w a home user is going to get..

[happy_highlander]

I agree with shady but make very sure you really don't need the info anymore because once it's nuked you will be very hard pushed to recover it, which is exactly what you want to happen.

[worcestersauce]

Thanks guys will definately "nuke it" later today and let ya know how it goes !!

[worcestersauce]

Well advised yet again on here, thanks guys, nuked and sorted...

[smokin]

right on...your basic format will not kill the special area left for deleted files unless you use a wipe program as mentioned...many exist just for this job....but unless you smash it yourself, your secret can be mine!!!!

[hrone1]

putting a PC

format....

[Cod3waX]

other than formating u could change the hdd and install a fresh windows on that

then u still have everything saved and can be obtained again via usb

check out these 2.5" hdd holders (caddys)
Smart Drive 2.5" SATA Enclosure with USB 2.0 & eSATA interface USBNow.co.uk

[Bann32]

Dban will do the job as previously mentioned.

[bob114]

hi

I have not been able to burn the download to disc

I downloaded the Dban rar file
From the Dban

DBAN 2.2.6 Beta for CD-R and DVD-R media.
(Burn this file to a blank disc and boot the computer with it. Do not unzip this file.)

I have tried this with 2 different burning programs to no avail

I have looked in the rar file to see

DBAN.BZI bzi file ISOLINUX bin file ISOLINUX Security Catalog ISOLINUX cfg file

ABOUT QUICK RAID WARNING files all text documents

Do I just need to burn one of the files to cd

Thanks for any advice

[Shady]

download some burning software such as magiciso, double click on iso file in rar archive, and it will open burning software.. then just burn it at slowest speed

[bob114]

Thank you for the very quick reply
I downloaded CDburnerXp as advised on the Dban site
I will have a go as your post (I was putting rar file in burning program)

thanks again Shady for your help

[Shady]

t (I was putting rar file in burning program)

yeah that will cause problems

[bob114]

Hi

this from the Dban site confussed me

DBAN 2.2.6 Beta for CD-R and DVD-R media. (the rar file)

(Burn this file to a blank disc and boot the computer with it. Do not unzip this file.) instruction below the download on the Dban site

so will it be the ISOLINUX bin file in the rar to open in burning program

thanks again Shady for the reply