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Formatting Doesn't Erase the Data,it can still be recovered.Use a Program called "Dban" which Overwrites the data with Random data several times...rendering it USELESS!!!
It's an Iso Image file,so you have to get a free program like "BurnAware" and burn the file to a Cd-r or Dvd-r.And boot it from System Start up.
This goes to Jeff,the System might be too infected to just format,you might want to wipe the drive all together and then try to re-install Windows.

Dban
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/files/dban-beta/dban-beta.2007042900/dban-beta.2007042900_i386.zip/download

Posted by: James at November 6, 2009 5:43 PM
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