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Quote "If the laptop will boot up, run the command prompt and then format C:
that will completely wipe your hard disc"

When you format a hard drive or delete a partition, you're usually only deleting the file system, making the data invisible but not gone. A file recovery program or special hardware can easily recover the information.

Saxo1

Saxo is right - the only way to make sure your data is inaccessible is to physically destroy the disk.  Remove it and break it - very satisfying!

There really is no other way of making it safe - I have a friend who (legally - it's for his work) has all the kit to recover data from disks - it's amazing what he can recover data from.  Don't risk it - break it.

http://ico.org.uk/for_the_public/topic_specific_guides/online/deleting_your_data

This may be of some help.

Quote: Originally posted by saxo1 on 02/2/2014

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Quote "If the laptop will boot up, run the command prompt and then format C:
that will completely wipe your hard disc"

When you format a hard drive or delete a partition, you're usually only deleting the file system, making the data invisible but not gone. A file recovery program or special hardware can easily recover the information.

Saxo1

When i type this into command prompt i get this " you do not have sufficient privilages you have to envoke this utility running in elevated mode" .  I am the admin for my pc, how much more privilage do i need ?.

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