Comments on: Greg asks, “What can I do with a broken laptop?” /2013/07/greg-asks-what-can-i-do-with-a-broken-laptop/ Tech news worth talking about and tech help worth listening to Sat, 25 Feb 2017 19:14:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.28 By: Ray Hollister /2013/07/greg-asks-what-can-i-do-with-a-broken-laptop/#comment-891 Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:17:49 +0000 http://deemable.com/?p=7498#comment-891 No need to be sorry, Eva! We didn’t say anything about deleting Windows. Of course you can’t delete Windows while you’re in the middle of using it.

We were talking about making sure that files that you have deleted are actually securely deleted. While completely reformatting your hard drive and doing a thorough secure erase of your entire hard drive is the best thing to do, it’s way beyond what most people are going to be willing and able to do.

]]> By: Eva M. Sprinkle /2013/07/greg-asks-what-can-i-do-with-a-broken-laptop/#comment-890 Thu, 11 Jul 2013 23:01:08 +0000 http://deemable.com/?p=7498#comment-890 Sorry, but my nephew who is an IT guy says that you can’t erase the C: drive where Windows is located from XP. The programs you recommended only overwrite areas that are already empty but not the complete HD. He gave me a much more complex 5-step procedure that involves burning a boot-up disk to re-format the HD.

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