A family friend of mine just upgraded his aging HP P4 desktop computer that his family uses. They only have one PC for the whole house to share and I did suggest he keep it for the kids but he only wanted one PC so he could monitor the kids.
Anyway, he is a heavy bank user and so forth and he's got family photos, music and excel spreadsheets etc which have been transferred to the new PC.
He is throwing the HP out at the e-waste dump so he wants to know how to delete all the data completely to never be recovered. I suggested a reformat but he said that wasn't good enough. I also suggested setting the hard drive on fire but he reckons that's a waste of resources.
I did some research online and he is indeed right and a simple reformat to re-install Windows isn't good enough. Is there any free software out there which can re-write and erase or whatever it is to delete data?
Anyway, he is a heavy bank user and so forth and he's got family photos, music and excel spreadsheets etc which have been transferred to the new PC.
He is throwing the HP out at the e-waste dump so he wants to know how to delete all the data completely to never be recovered. I suggested a reformat but he said that wasn't good enough. I also suggested setting the hard drive on fire but he reckons that's a waste of resources.
I did some research online and he is indeed right and a simple reformat to re-install Windows isn't good enough. Is there any free software out there which can re-write and erase or whatever it is to delete data?
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