Hi,

I know this isn't necessarily the right group, but I know a lot of smart
people are here.  Anyway, I have a Windows 98 machine that I plan to give
away.  I want to format the HD so that it's clean when I give it away.  How
do I do it?

Thanks,
Gary

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"Gary" <HAHAgarywZIPJUNK@nohsc.comNNOOSPAMMM> wrote in news:m0_Wa.126916
$R92.116666@news2.central.cox.net:

> Hi,
> 
> I know this isn't necessarily the right group, but I know a lot of smart
> people are here.  Anyway, I have a Windows 98 machine that I plan to give
> away.  I want to format the HD so that it's clean when I give it away.  How
> do I do it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gary
> 

You can boot from the CD or make a boot disk to boot from at the prompt type: 
format c: /u /q (Remove the /q if you don't want to quick format it.)

--Shaun

Thanks!

"Shaun Marolf" <shaun_marolf(NOSPAM)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns93CBD790473B9shaunmarolfNOSPAMhot@24.28.95.158...
> "Gary" <HAHAgarywZIPJUNK@nohsc.comNNOOSPAMMM> wrote in news:m0_Wa.126916
> $R92.116666@news2.central.cox.net:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know this isn't necessarily the right group, but I know a lot of smart
> > people are here.  Anyway, I have a Windows 98 machine that I plan to
give
> > away.  I want to format the HD so that it's clean when I give it away.
How
> > do I do it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gary
> >
>
> You can boot from the CD or make a boot disk to boot from at the prompt
type:
> format c: /u /q (Remove the /q if you don't want to quick format it.)
>
> --Shaun

FDISK and format should do it.


Barry OGrady wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 02:12:39 GMT, Shaun Marolf <shaun_marolf(NOSPAM)@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> That may not be secure enough. He could use something like PGP secure erase.
> 

What I ended up doing was rebooting and holding down the CTRL key.  When it
opened up the windows screen, I selected prompt only and then typed "format
c:".  That seemed to get rid of everything.  Am I wrong?

Thanks again,
Gary

"Airman Basic" <whoever9262@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> FDISK and format should do it.
>
>
> Barry OGrady wrote:
> > On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 02:12:39 GMT, Shaun Marolf
<shaun_marolf(NOSPAM)@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > That may not be secure enough. He could use something like PGP secure
erase.
> >
>

That's fine for the next user. The problem is that your data is still 
retrievable by a savvy nerd. If you don't have anything on that hard 
drive that bothers you, go for it.

Gary wrote:
> What I ended up doing was rebooting and holding down the CTRL key.  When it
> opened up the windows screen, I selected prompt only and then typed "format
> c:".  That seemed to get rid of everything.  Am I wrong?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Gary
> 
> "Airman Basic" <whoever9262@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:DrecnXvReft0B7CiXTWJjA@netdoor.com...
> 
>>FDISK and format should do it.
>>
>>
>>Barry OGrady wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 02:12:39 GMT, Shaun Marolf
> 
> <shaun_marolf(NOSPAM)@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>
>>>That may not be secure enough. He could use something like PGP secure
> 
> erase.
> 
> 
> 

On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 15:22:56 GMT, "Gary" <HAHAgarywZIPJUNK@nohsc.comNNOOSPAMMM> wrote:

>What I ended up doing was rebooting and holding down the CTRL key.  When it
>opened up the windows screen, I selected prompt only and then typed "format
>c:".  That seemed to get rid of everything.  Am I wrong?

It's not wrong, but there is a possibility of someone unformatting it.

>Thanks again,
>Gary
>
>"Airman Basic" <whoever9262@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:DrecnXvReft0B7CiXTWJjA@netdoor.com...
>> FDISK and format should do it.
>>
>>
>> Barry OGrady wrote:
>> > On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 02:12:39 GMT, Shaun Marolf
><shaun_marolf(NOSPAM)@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > That may not be secure enough. He could use something like PGP secure
>erase.
>> >
>>
>


-Barry
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