Wiping hard drive

[syrulian]

I'm trying to wipe my windows xp hard drive, how would I go about doing that?

[ThoseSneakyFrench]

No, really.

[CrypticPoptart]

delete system 32 and your whole computer goes to shit

[TheNossinator]

At 6/6/09 07:29 PM, CrypticPoptart wrote: delete system 32 and your whole computer goes to shit

He said he wants to wipe the hard drive, not destroy the computer.

[rockyace42]

Huzzah

[syrulian]

At 6/6/09 07:28 PM, ThoseSneakyFrench wrote: No, really.

Would I just type all that into Run>CMD?

[rockyace42]

OOO!!!! TEH INTERNETS!!!

sorry for double post

[mwmike]

At 6/6/09 07:31 PM, syrulian wrote: Would I just type all that into Run>CMD?

Pretty much. If you have more than one partition on your drive, then using the partition manager inside My Computer->Manage->Disk Management is a good alternative, though you might end up getting Error 17'ed when you put something else on there in the future.

[TiredPaperBoy]

Ttick the Windows CD in and the new windows will ask to nuke the old one.

Thats how I do it

[YeOldeSierra]

Just click the Start button, and go to My Computer. Once you're there, right click the hard drive that contains the Operating System (:C Drive, I think). Right click it, and then select Format. Confirm everything, and then it will wipe the entire hard drive - possibly including the Operating System. Be very careful. I've never wiped my hard drive before, so I don't really know.

One tip though : DO NOT DELETE SYSTEM_32!

System_32 is where the OS is kept. Do not delete this folder, or there will be nothing on your computer. People are trying to recreate a previous incident where some kid had a probem with sprites. The kid was told to delete System_32. He did it, and he no longer has a computer.

[ragingfred]

take a magnet to it, and wipe.