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Clearing laptop hard disk
02-02-2010 9:49 AM
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Am planning to try to get a few bob for spares (it is in very nice condition) but want to clear the HD first.
Don't want to take it out and scrap it because there is nothing wrong with it.
Please could someone tell me if this is possible to do? I can easily remove the hard disk.
Re: Clearing laptop hard disk
02-02-2010 10:23 AM
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Not used it myself but it sounds like it ought to do the job. You're going to need to be able to get it to boot from a CD though...
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Re: Clearing laptop hard disk
02-02-2010 10:32 AM
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02-02-2010 11:01 AM
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Sorry, but it looked a bit complicated so wonder if you could explain? I know how to burn an ISO though.
The Dban looks as if it is made for the job so am going to try to burn a CD from the download page laater today.
Thanks for the links and help.
Have had someone telephone as have advertised it in the local supermarket but if anyone is interested it is a 15" Elonex and very clean.
Just had a new power supply and connection. It has an 80GB HD 512MB RAM. Don't have the original XP disk.
Re: Clearing laptop hard disk
02-02-2010 11:28 AM
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Just playing with sysrescuecd which is similar without the data wipe and it presents a GUI (xfce desktop actually)
Re: Clearing laptop hard disk
02-02-2010 11:40 AM
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02-02-2010 11:47 AM
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I have downloaded the Dban zip file and am going to unpack it. There is an iso file and I presume I click that and it should
burn to disk with Roxio?
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02-02-2010 12:07 PM
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Running it in Autonuke is fine @Poppy, there are lots of other settings, but they are really not worth worrying about!
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02-02-2010 12:18 PM
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Got it going but not sure if it was Autonuke as it wouldn't respond to down button so had to just hit enter.
It said that it was cleared although it worked very quickly - not a long time like Ben said.
Afterwards it went into a white screen which I haven't seen before so does this mean that it is OK now?
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02-02-2010 12:40 PM
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I would retry running it.
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02-02-2010 12:45 PM
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02-02-2010 2:05 PM
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just d/led it and ran it in a VM. you need to TYPE autonuke in to the boot: menu rather than pressing a Fn key.
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02-02-2010 3:41 PM
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Seems funny that it does it very occasionally - most times it just flashes up and goes back to the Elonex screen.
Makes a clicking noise for a few minutes then stops.
T'other half has found someone who will have a look to see if anything can be done.
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