Friday 16 December 2011

How to erase a hard disk the right way!

If you ask yourself how you can erase a hard disk, in order to start all over again and correctly install the programs back, then there are certain recommendations that we would suggest you keep in mind before proceeding, so that you prevent destroying your hard disk, destroy your data or make it unusable.Before you start to delete data on your hard drive it is important to make sure you have backed up and secured all information existing on your hard drive. There are various ways how to do that, including uploading it to the Internet. Another thing you need to verify before erasing all the data from your hard disk is that you have all the installation CDs and diskettes to make everything functional again. Keep in mind that in case you PC operates with Windows 98 or a version even lower than that you have to have a boot disk to have it format and to reinstall it properly. Although you have the boot disk or the installation CD, sometimes there are cases in which the data can’t be reinstalled properly. Therefore you might want to make sure everything is ok, before you proceed to erase your hard drive. Also, if you are running software that is licensed, make sure you have all the necessary OEM numbers and registration codes necessary so that you are able to register the programs once again, before you completely delete it.

There are various manners in which a hard disk can be erased. You might want to use specialized software for this operation, or you might use the traditional method. There are many new releases on the software market for managing and erasing any hard drive information which can assist the computer users so as to remove any trace of Internet activity on their PCs, to erase history files or cookies as they surf the net. Even when they have surfed anonymously in real time.

Are you wondering why you should use specialized software in order to remove the data from your computer that you either don’t need anymore or you simply don’t want others to have access to? Well, there are really good reason for you not to proceed in the traditional way. You have to be aware that although you have deleted your files and folders by using the delete utility function and by so doing erasing all the relevant information from your hard disk, that it is still be possible for other persons to access sensitive data if they have the right software tools. This is because the delete operation in Windows does only remove the special reference of the file or folder from the file system’s table, not the data itself. Thus, the particular piece of information actually still remains on the disk until another file is saved over it. By carefully studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface other people can actually find, recover and use deleted data later, while you may believed that previous data were secure from prying eyes.

In other words if you intend to wipe out the data on the hard disk in order to totally destroy or block access to specific data, then you definitely need the assistance of a software which permanently perform this erasing operation.

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