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[Roger Austin <raustin3 AT nc.rr.com>]

On 8/28/2010 4:57 PM, cmccarthy1 AT nc.rr.com wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have a few questions on erasing a hard drive and backing up everything on 
> my machines.
>
> I want to give a PC to someone, but want to wipe everything off the hard 
> drive before I do it.  I think that the Norton Ghost product can do this and 
> also offers a backup option.
>
> Have any of you used this product for either/both of these tasks?  For the 
> backup option, will it backup and relatively effortlessly restore my Outlook 
> folders?
>
> Thanks much to anyone who can provide any information!
>
> Colleen

If I was doing it, I might just buy another drive and copy everything 
over to it. Even better if you can find someone who has some old spares.
Ghost will do it, but a drive might be about the same cost and you
don't need to do much exploring in the software.

I think you can download a disk wipe program for free. Like
<http://www.diskwipe.org/>

Good luck, Roger
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