The best thing to do is to make a Darik's Boot and Nuke floppy or 
CD and boot up from it.  Follow the prompts and then have the 
confidence that your personal information won't leave your 
house.

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Dave
On Friday 23 November 2007 03:12 am, Chris wrote:
> I am sorry that this question has nothing to do with a treo.
>
> But I have an old win me desktop that I want to take to
> goodwill. Very small amount of data is on the hard drive. What
> is the best way to remove all the data on here? It may have
> all pirated software. It was a roomate/? I don't want to risk
> getting into trouble & I just want it gone. So what should I
> do before going to goodwill? Thank you
>
>      Chris & Lyndy
>

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