Recomendations Needed Prior To Rr-formatting XP

[Advanced Glock Armorer]

Hi Guys,


I need your help. What do you recommend for wiping the computer "CLEAN" prior to re-formatting the hard drive with Windows XP Home Edition.

Thanking you all in advance for your help & sage advise.

Fraternally yours

Jimmy Ward

PS: Someone mentioned DBAN for this task.

[Furant]

Well, if you're doing it just to reinstall Windows, you'll have the option of deleting and then re-creating the partition on which Windows will be installed. If you're trying to do it to securely delete some data before reinstalling Windows, yes Darik's Boot and Nuke (http://www.dban.org/) is a good first step.

[Pierre!]

Second on Darik's Boot N Nuke...

Nice little program!

Will definitly whack all the RootKits on your system... Used it quite a bit for this purpose.

HTH

[DoubleWide]

Boot n Nuke works fine if you really want erase the data otherwise a format or erase partitions is fine for the most part if you're keeping the computer.

[Advanced Glock Armorer]

I used the Boot & Nuke 2.0 and It worked like a charm.

Thanks Again