You can use Dban (Darik's boot and nuke) to wipe a disk/thumb drive clean of all data. It is free and open source.
About Dban: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darik's_Boot_and_Nuke Download from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Tomas Nordin <[email protected]> To: Don Saklad <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected] Sent: Tue, 09 Jun 2020 13:30:34 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: Upon plugging in the first time how do you take all traces of MicroSoft away?... Don Saklad <[email protected]> writes: > a) Upon plugging in the first time how do you take all traces of > MicroSoft away?... on a "newly" MicroSoft Authorized > Refurbished HP ProDesk 600 G1 SFF Small Form Factor PC > just arrived from Tiger Direct > https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-prodesk-600-g1-small-form-facto r-pc/5387447/manuals Can you take the disk(s) out and just wipe them? Other than that I don't know. I bought my Thinkpad refurbished and could choose one w/o any OS. I also told them it was important for me that the disk was clean from anything. -- Tomas _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
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