HDD Wipe

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All,
I am about do do a clean wipe of my Hard Drive using Killdisk. As this is the first time I have done this, can someone give me a rough play by play on how to get set back up after I run the eraser program?
I have the recovery disk for XP and know to reinstall the OS off the bootable CD. Is there anything else I should know before proceeding?

Thanks,
Greg

[scott]

If possible I would backup all of my data, make sure I have all of the software disks and serial numbers for any programs I need to re-install after the format. Also any 3rd party drivers or disks that I needed. After the format I would go to windows update and update XP to the fullest. Then I would re-install programs, and then copy the data back over. Also, you should be able to format your computer from your XP disk if you didn't want to use killdisk.

[BOB IROC]

Well it varies from brand to brand, but after you wipe the disk you should be able to insert recovery disk 1 or the windows recovery disk and it will allow you to set up the partition and format the drive.

If your system has a built in restore such as HP/Compaq where it has a secondary partition with the restore data I would not wipe the entire drive. I would just run the recovery and go to the advanced options to format the drive.