Recent content by RJL

got it, thanks. so is there a valid reason I should DBAN it? My main concern is that the new owners of these laptops will be unable to retreive anything personal I have on it, but that it will be otherwise usable for them.

Ok, forgive my ignorance... so I should delete all files, then empty the recycle bin...then run Eraser on the unused space. do I have that right? I'm not trying to erase the OS, just the data on the hard drive. And can you elaborate on "DBAN the drive"? thanks so much!

by wipe it clean, I just mean to permanently erase all the personal data on my hard drive tried unsuccessfully, just refers to running the program on 2 different machines to erase my c:, and in both cases, I got a message saying Eraser has stopped working..A problem has caused the program to...

I've tried unsuccessfully to run Eraser on 2 computers that I need to wipe clean. 1 is running XP Professional SP2, the other is running Vista Ultimate SP1. Do I need to upgrade these to higher service packs in order to make Eraser work, or would there be any other ideas to help? Thanks for...