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Computer Help and Support

iemanja

(55,356 posts) Wed Dec 28, 2022, 09:34 PM Dec 2022

I have to return a computer. How do I scrub it? [View all]

The irritating one drive, without my permission, decided to download all kinds of work files AND MY TAX RETURNS onto this new computer. I unlinked onedrive from the computer, but it didn't remove the files. How do I make sure everything is deleted permanently?

I'm returning the computer because it is defective.

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I have to return a computer. How do I scrub it? [View all] iemanja Dec 2022 OP

format the hard drive Timewas Dec 2022 #1

No disc iemanja Dec 2022 #2

Do you have a disk Timewas Dec 2022 #3

There is no DVD drive iemanja Dec 2022 #5

2 things I do. Either remove it and smash it with a hammer or get East-Tec Eraser and do a DoD+ wipe TheBlackAdder Jan 2023 #23

There are quite a free few diskwipe programs out there. sl8 Dec 2022 #4

Thank you iemanja Dec 2022 #6

Question iemanja Dec 2022 #7

Wherever you bought it moniss Dec 2022 #10

I'm not positive, but I doubt it. sl8 Dec 2022 #21

Delete all of the files in the following three Folders padfun Dec 2022 #8

0K, TY iemanja Dec 2022 #9

Boot into command prompt intrepidity Dec 2022 #11

Formatting doesn't do much.. data can easily be recovered... getagrip_already Dec 2022 #12

After I deleted all the files from file manager iemanja Dec 2022 #13

Not familiar with the tool, but getagrip_already Dec 2022 #20

I reread the return policy iemanja Dec 2022 #14

They let me return it for a full refund iemanja Dec 2022 #22

New computers have a recovery partition IbogaProject Dec 2022 #15

Your link is dead iemanja Dec 2022 #16

I tried making it a formal link IbogaProject Dec 2022 #17

Something is strange iemanja Dec 2022 #18

Your DNS might be messing up IbogaProject Dec 2022 #19

Eraser TdeV Jan 2023 #24