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.]. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email > [email protected]& you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups > Links > > > > > ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
