Re: Format Compaq Presario S5000V

[Tom Jedrzejewicz <tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Use "Darik's Burn and Nuke"   -->  http://www.dban.org/

Download the utility, create a bootable CD, and boot to it. It will "clean"
the hard drive.

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Tom Jedrzejewicz
tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Illegitimi non carborundum"



On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Vidal, Concepcion <CVidal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Good morning list!
>
> My friend has an old Desktop COMPAQ Presario that he wants to sell /
> donate.  He wants to wipe out any personal data from it.  It has Windows XP
> in it but he has no CDs.  I have tried to use the F10 function (System
> Recovery) and seem that is not getting activated and I have tried several
> free programs to try to format the hard drive but I have not found "the
> one" yet.
>
> Can you guide me to the right path about how to initialize / format the
> hard drive?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Peter Vidal
>
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