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Old 08-23-07   #1 (permalink)
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Should I completely wipe my hard drive using http://dban.sourceforge.net/

or does it even make a difference?
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It's not a bad idea, but not entirely necessary.

I simply formatted my drive using the windows utility before jumping from XP to Vista 64.

DBAN is more for deleting data (and keeping it unrecoverable).
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Okay I wont use it then. Thankz.
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