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On a Winbook XP notebook, 486, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, MSDOS v 6.22, delete protection set as standard. I am selling this notebook and wish to purge all the deleted files., How do I do this? Liz
Name: Intel386DX Date: May 2, 2002 at 11:24:45 Pacific
Reply:
low level format, or a tool like Norton Utilities Wipe
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Response Number 2
Name: fred6008 Date: May 10, 2002 at 18:45:21 Pacific
Reply:
Format /u is supposed to do this, but to be on the safe side you could download WIPE.exe from the IBM.COM website and wipe the drive. Then re FDISK and FORMAT.
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