Advice: Selling a secondhand computer

[party_pete]

I'm currently selling a couple of my old laptops and wondered what was the best way to ensure that all my personal data and programs were permenantly deleted from the drives - any recommendations?

Admittedly, i should have found out how/if I could do this before putting them up for sale :o

[pnagames]

i think the fdisk followed by the format command should do it

but that means you need to reinstall the necessary drivers, windows etc.

[Mike Hughes]

Try one of the ones on here:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/dr/best-free-secure-erase-utility.htm

I'm assuming the Pcs are being sold with windows, etc so you really only want to wipe your own stuff.

Mike

Of course I guess the most secure option is to wipe the whole disk and then re-install windows.

[party_pete]

Mike - I think that'll do the job nicely!