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    Membralata Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Dec 21, 2008, 04:18 PM
    How to delete absolutely everything off my PC without leaving anything behind
    Hi I am kaniz,
    I was wondering if you would be able to tell what I should do to delete everything off my hard drive leaving nothing behind on my windows vista because I am selling it.
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    Dec 21, 2008, 04:23 PM

    You would have to reformat the hard drive to effectively erase everything on it.
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    Dec 21, 2008, 04:53 PM

    Your Windows Vista machine came with a Recovery CD or partition. Using this will restore your PC to the condition it came from the factory.

    If you Reformat or shred the disk, as suggested, you will need to have a OS disk to put an OS back on the machine.
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    Dec 21, 2008, 04:59 PM

    If you are truly worried about leaving any files on the hard drive that might survive a formatting just buy a new hard drive and destroy the old one, it's the only 100% guaranteed way that none of your data can be recovered.

    Hard drives are not all that expensive if your not buying top of the line...
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    Jan 15, 2009, 01:38 AM

    You can simply do this...
    Insert your OS boot cd
    Boot with cd
    In preparatory screen appears, in it delete all partitions
    Then restart your system and remove your boot cd
    Hard disk will have nothing on it
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