Hi, I was planning to give my computer to one of my friends. He is a computer wiz. I dont want him to snoop around in my hard drive to look for personal stuff that i had deleted. I dont want to loose any of my programs and other cool stuff on the computer. How can i reformat without loosing the stuff i have saved. I am using windows 95 operating system. I would be helpful if you could give me step by step instruction on how to reformat my hard drive without loosing the cool stuff. thanks.

Hi, You don't need to format. Just fill up your hard drive with any files. For example, copy something from CDs you have to fill all available space on your hard drive. Then delete this files. That way you will overwrite all deleted information which still can be on your hard drive and it'll become unrecoverable. Good luck, Igor M

hello can anyone tell me how to reformat my friend's computer? in just basic english please? LOL he has a virus that is killing him and he needs to totally reformat. thanks alot! please email me information

go to dos and type FORMAT C: then restart with a ms dos disk or win 95/98 boot dish in your machine, reinstall, EVERYTHING NOW

my son just gave me his computer, he was going to make a flower pot out of it. i am self taught on puters in continuous learning mode and i want to wipe everything off his drive and reformat and start again, is there a good book to get that will teach me this? or can you give some beginning instructions. looking forward to hearing from you.... thanks.

ok i need to reformat my hard drive cuase there are aolt of porblems with it and i would like to do it my self so i can do it again if i have to i usely send it to my grandpa and he does it for me but i want to learn and do it my self can you please help me email me with info thanks ed

My Windows95 operating system is corrupted and a lot of files are missing. I need to install a full version Windows98. I don't know how to reformat the hard-drive to install Wins98. Can anyone help? Thanks.