Deb, If this is going to your parents, I wouldn't worry too much about residual data. Therefore, yes. The right click, Format will work.
If you have confidential data on the drive, you can try a free trial of CyberScrub (not affiliated, just googled) or something similar to truly destroy the data. http://www.cyberscrub.com/cyberscrub/index.php - Todd -----Original Message----- From: The PuterBug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] OT: reformatting an external hard drive Hi there, I currently have an external hard drive I use for backups. It's on the small side so today I bought a larger one. I have sold my current one and want to reformat it before turning it over to the new parents. There is no software that came with it, I plugged it into the firewire port and XP found and installed the drivers. Question is, if go to MY COMPUTER and right click that G drive (external) and choose FORMAT will that be all I need to do to make this external clean and ready for the new owners? Or is there something else I need to know or do to accomplish this properly? Should one defrag after a reformat of such a drive? Thanks! Deb ____ * The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM * ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
