AdamZ
Touchdown! Greaser!
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Adam Zucker
Well not really washing it!
I have a Dell Precision 340 Desk top coumputer with mouse and keyboard from my firm. ( no screen). It has been sitting under my desk for a few years so I plugged it in to see what it had.
Pentium 4
2.00 GHz
523,780 KB RAM
its loaded with some decent stuff like
Windows 2000
MS Office Professional
and some law firm and aviation specific programs.
Anyway I thought about donating it. My wife works in a school and some of the kids don't have computers at home and I thought she might be able to give it to one of the kids. It can hook up to the net and they can use Word to do reports etc. Kind of help them keep up.
HOWEVER I really really would need to be sure that all of the Data on the HD was permanently deleted since it was once my work computer.
Questions;
1) Is this old box even worth giving away at all
2) If so how do I accomplish my goal of total deletion of Data without trashing the HD. The computer will be worthless to these kids if the HD is removed.
Thanks
I have a Dell Precision 340 Desk top coumputer with mouse and keyboard from my firm. ( no screen). It has been sitting under my desk for a few years so I plugged it in to see what it had.
Pentium 4
2.00 GHz
523,780 KB RAM
its loaded with some decent stuff like
Windows 2000
MS Office Professional
and some law firm and aviation specific programs.
Anyway I thought about donating it. My wife works in a school and some of the kids don't have computers at home and I thought she might be able to give it to one of the kids. It can hook up to the net and they can use Word to do reports etc. Kind of help them keep up.
HOWEVER I really really would need to be sure that all of the Data on the HD was permanently deleted since it was once my work computer.
Questions;
1) Is this old box even worth giving away at all
2) If so how do I accomplish my goal of total deletion of Data without trashing the HD. The computer will be worthless to these kids if the HD is removed.
Thanks