Hey Papsmurf,
I'd not recommend having your local PC repair shop wipe the hard drive,
as they will charge you for a service you can perform yourself for the
cost of burning a CD.
I prefer an application called System Rescue CD, which you can download
on line. Simply burn it to a CD, pop it in the new drive, and when you
get to the boot menu, select the Floppy image to display a sub menu.
The application you want to use is DBAN, which allows you to securely
and permanently erase the hard drive.
The CD also gives you a ton of other tools you can use as you need.
There are a lot of free options available if you want to securely erase
a hard disk drive, and this is only one of them.
Septymus Spyder
On 10-10-07 09:06 AM, papasmurf wrote:
> A BIG THANK YOU to all you folks who took the time to answer my info request! Have MUCH information to digest and learn!
> 'New' dual core tower will, hopefully, arrive in 2 weeks. Might have local pc repair shop wipe h.d. in this pc to start Linux with a clean slate.
> Question: Whatever happened to a program I remember, called Linspire?
> I understand t'was supposed to mimic Windows screen layout, so folks learning Linux would be less intimidated.
> Am going to pursue suggestion to locate a local Linux club or working group. THAT might be BEST thing I could do!
> TTFN.....OLD Tom aka papasmurf in NH
> P.S. Am life-long HO model railroader[alas, have no layout right now]
> and wife/yours truly have old Goldwing sidecar rig; ride it all over New England area as much as we can[just celebrated our 50th Anniv.].
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