Hard Clean

[robotrenegade]

I'm about to hard clean my drive. I have saved everything i want. All I need now is my saved links from IE. How do I go about this?

 

[MacBandit]

Re: Hard Clean

Originally posted by robotrenegade
I'm about to hard clean my drive. I have saved everything i want. All I need now is my saved links from IE. How do I go about this?

Do a search for favorites.html

 

[cb911]

what is a 'hard clean'? is that a way of completely erasing all of the files from your machine?

i'm about to sell my TiBook so i want to know how to properly erase all of my stuff.

 

[Eniregnat]

The term "Hard Clean" brings to mind the use of a deGausser. That would render the HD useless. Do you mean a security delete (alternating filling the drive with 1's and 0's) or a zeroing/ true formatting of the drive using software?

One of many threads on "zeroing" drives. It may help help you cb911

 

[King Cobra]

Eniregnat's suggestion (previous link) of replicating a file until filling the Hard Drive works best when you just have your system software installed and a very large portion of your Hard Drive still available. That way you can hide more evidance of any files you don't want anyone to discover.

 

[cb911]

thanks everyone, i'll have to read up on some stuff now.

 

[robotrenegade]

The term "Hard Clean" brings to mind the use of a deGausser. That would render the HD useless. Do you mean a security delete (alternating filling the drive with 1's and 0's) or a zeroing/ true formatting of the drive using software?

I meant Zeroing sorry.