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Offline BFM_Rickp9

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format hard drive
« on: June 27, 2013, 09:38:42 AM »
I done it before but been a while now and I would like to redo my hard drive and forgot how to lol.
any suggestion?
I want to totally format and put all back in

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Offline MrMxyzptlk

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Re: format hard drive
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2013, 02:19:30 PM »

So let me be sure here: You are going to take all your stuff off your hard drive and onto some other media/device, and then wipe your existing hard drive "clean," right? (NOTE: Unless you really want to do a lot of work you will NOT be going "back to factory state," FYI.)
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Re: format hard drive
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2013, 09:14:53 AM »
The best way I found is to start by using darik's boot and nuke , google it for download info , its great because you can wipe it to DOD standards , erases all info so no one could retrieve any info at all.
Then just start with a fresh copy of windows.
You will also have to go into the bios of the computer and select the proper drive so dariks will be the primary boot device. 
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