hi,i am goin to give my brother my pc after the new year,What do i have to do to my pc to wipe all pesonal info that it is on it,i will give him the restore disc and driver disc for windows xp. Will it be better if he buys a new copy of windows for his use? As i only have a restore disc etc,if he puts this on ,i take it all my info,log on etc will come up,just a thot ? cheers again guys i always get answers to my probs so i would like to thank u in advance guys and dolls. 'Scots, wha hae wi' wallace bled, Scots,wha Bruce has often led, Welcome to your glory bed,Or to Victorie!'

Just boot to the restore CD and run it. It will wipe clean the HD & reinstate Windows to its factory-state ... with no trace of your "personal info" left intact. The chance of him recovering the supposedly vanished data is extremely remote unless he is truly an expert in computer forensics. i_XpUser

Just run the recovery disc few days prior to handing him the PC, and let him have all applicable discs that came with the system once you've handed it over. You don't want to give him the PC without a way to fix things when they go awry. The Secret Letter From Iraq

Is the restore disc one that you made, or did it come with the computer when new? If it came with the computer when new, just run it and you should be good.

Cheers guys,ur all one in a million 'Scots, wha hae wi' wallace bled, Scots,wha Bruce has often led, Welcome to your glory bed,Or to Victorie!'