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re: You don't need to find a reset switch
Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at 8:14 pm
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Posted by Kiwi (2108 messages posted)

But when you do, you will find it to be very close to the main power button, just smaller and harder to press by accident. You just need a Win9x series startup floppy with the Fdisk program on it.

Set the old PC's boot sequence to use the floppy, boot to the command line there, start Fdisk, and remove all of the partitions on all drives. Lots faster than running format, and harder to unerase by a ton. An expert with computers can recover most of the data you want "erased" if you merely reformat.

Norton's Utilities included a program that overwrote every cluster with nothing but zeros; that was a better way to make personal data unaccessible.

Kiwi

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On Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at 12:43 pm, Ruth wrote:
> ... plan to donate my old Gateway 2000 PC system to Africa

Written in response to:
Help on re-formatting my Gateway2000 hard disk (Ruth: Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at 12:43 pm)

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re: You don't need to find a reset switch (Ruth: Saturday, August 6, 2005 at 10:44 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]

Help on re-formatting my Gateway2000 hard disk (Ruth: Tue, Aug 2, 2005, 12:43 pm)

re: You don't need to find a reset switch (Kiwi: Wed, Aug 3, 2005, 8:14 pm)

re: You don't need to find a reset switch (Ruth: Sat, Aug 6, 2005, 10:44 am)

re: You don't need to find a reset switch (Kiwi: Sun, Aug 7, 2005, 6:17 am)

re: You don't need to find a reset switch (Ruth: Sun, Aug 7, 2005, 6:13 pm)

re: You don't need to find a reset switch (Kiwi: Sun, Aug 7, 2005, 9:21 pm)

re: Help on re-formatting my Gateway2000 hard disk (anu: Fri, Aug 5, 2005, 2:51 pm)

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