Is It Possible To Erase A Hard Disk, Then Recover With Recovery Disk?
Posted by benny in FreeWare on June 15th, 2009 | 4 responses
i want to return a computer to office depot i’ve had for a couple of weeks, but during the time i’ve had it, there has been personal info and downloads. i’d like to erase the disk completely clean with drive scrubber. if i do that, can i restore the computer and the software in its original state that i bought it in with the recovery disk that came with it? or would i need to use the recovery disk to erase the disk itself, then do its recovery? i think if it did it, all my personal info wouldn’t be erased all the way and still some info recoverable. thanks for any helps
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4 Responses to “Is It Possible To Erase A Hard Disk, Then Recover With Recovery Disk?”
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YES, the recovery disk WILL restore back to new condition. DriveScrubber WILL completely erase all of your data from the drive .. see: http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utili...
..so you will be FINE to do this ,,,scrub the durive and then re-install the software with the recovery disk ..don’t worry about somebody being able to recover your info … it would be a MAJOR excercise to even attempt this after you have run DriveScrubber … see the site above… “Once a drive has been wiped with DriveScrubber, no attempts (regardless of their level of sophistication) will be able to recover any data that previously existed thereon. “
Yes. you dont even have to do anything cept reinstall the OS
Y.E.S.
Additionally, If you’re Paranoid about it’s contents, Use one of the Spy-ware erasers. in DOD Mode to clear it.
If they want your data, software exists that will recover your data.
That is why agency’s physically break the hard drive.
In the future, all ways make sure that you have two drives in your system, one for the operating system, the other for your data.
Always do a SAVE AS, so that you will have the opportunity to select where you want your data stored.