New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Ensuring that my data is gone from laptop...

post #1 of 6
8/24/04 at 6:57pm
Thread Starter 
Interestingly enough, I did not prepare for the future. I have a laptop from work/partnership. The partnershi dissolved and part of the dissolution agrees that I return my main laptop. I have a lot of data on it. I can get it all off, but that is the question. How do I ensure that I get all of my data off the laptop. I can't unintall the OS (win2000). I am goint to remove my user but....

It is somewhat important as there is my work product and contacts on the laptop. I am taking those clients and that work with me and do not want it left for anyone to see. Here is an example. I had Outlook, and OE(newsgroups, email accounts). I deleted the pst files etc and all of the OE data but I did not delete the address book... hmmmm

Thanks for any thoughts/ideas.

Matt
Reply
Reply
post #2 of 6
8/24/04 at 7:22pm
maybe i'm missing something, but is there any reason you can't just reformat?
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 6
8/24/04 at 7:29pm
He said he cant uninstall the os. Do not manually delete your files!!!! Defragment your hard drive, get a file-shredding program, and shred all of those documents. That's the best you can do without wiping the drive.
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 6
8/25/04 at 6:34am
Maybe you could offer to buy out the laptop, to save the hassle?
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 6
8/25/04 at 11:12am
Get Cyberscrub. There is a 15 day free trail and it has better than Department of Defense shredding. Wipe the drive with this and it won't matter who gets ahold of it.
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 6
8/25/04 at 5:49pm
Thread Starter 
Orion Joel: Latop is an older Sager (Clevo 2200T) and has worked great but the partner wants over $1000. We use laptops for training purposes... so they have some value.

JimmyMac: Good link. Thank you. I use SpyBot to shred the data that I was concerned about and went along my merry way deleting Internet explorer fiels etc.... CyberScrub found over an absolute huge amount of data and scrubbed it all. I wouldhave never found all of those files.

Thank you and good link
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home