Apple :: MBP - How Do I Wipe The HD Clean
Jun 14, 2009
3 year old MBP. It still has about a year on Applecare and has RAM added.
I need to switch because Apples are just not for me and I am going to teach an online course. I need a windows based computer.
Does anybody care to help me wipe the computer clean of all my stuff? How to back up the HD and wipe clean the HD?
Anyway, thanks and I hope to get some help on selling this machine. It has a neoprene case and some other things that make it a great notebook for an Apple lover.
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Jul 10, 2009
Sending by computer back to Dell and I want to wipe the HDD using DBAN.
The CD/DVD doesn't work so I have to go for a USB method (like so)
What I've tried:
-WinRAR extract 1.0.7 iso to usb
-WinRAR extract 2.0.0 iso to usb
-Installing via 1.0.7 exe .....
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Mar 19, 2010
A few days ago I phoned Acer's local home office in San Jose, CA. I understand Acer customers, like any of the reported support lines, are hard to get thru to. Fortunately I called their home office as they kindly listened to why I was calling (Acer's recovery instructions conflict and can't be followed), eg; the instructions refer to uses of their "recovery media" disk(s) as opposed to either "recovery disk" or "system disk" (which's what those two 'media' disks are labeled and Acer instructions are 'all over the place'; ie; conflicting and uninterpretable).
Of note, apparently calls from Acer's H.O. and are answered by support after "one" ring. Because Acer publishes some 5 sets of how to's for recovering their AOA150 OS's and few to none of those instructions agree with each other, including the instructions that are mailed with the "system" disk, I decided to at least clear up what the differences were between the "recovery" and "system" disks.
After nearly 20 minutes of repeating my name, most all the details I'd already answered, not to mention having reiterated my question something like 5 times (likely their support people have a so called supervisor who loosely listens to the goings on in their 'boiler room' and pretty likely the workers soon realize to keep the super's off their backs, they simply ask for your name and everything again, just to make it look like they're on another call)......................
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Jan 17, 2010
I have a brand new nw280f with Windows 7 and I hate it. 7 that is, I want to wipe and load my XP PRO onto it. Can I do this? Will all my funtions work? The drivers on the Sony site are all for Windows 7. I want to use several of my programs and some hardware and they do not work with Windows 7.
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Jul 18, 2008
how to wipe and reboot my laptop? do i need anything other than recovery disc 1 and 2. is there anything in specific i shouldshould not do? i know this may sound simple but have never messed around with hard drive's myself-
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Dec 31, 2009
I had an HP DV6500t with a 320GB Western Digital Scorpio Black (7200 rpm) with Windows 7 and all my data loaded on it.
After 3 years the HP's motherboard and 8400gs GPU completely fried, so I decided to part out the rest of the laptop and I just bought a Studio XPS 1640. It is beautiful,
it came with the 1gb 4670, the 16inch RGBLED display etc, but only has a 250gb hard drive .....
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May 19, 2014
I sold my Hp mini 210-2081NR and before I give it away I want to wipe the memory off it completely ....
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Dec 6, 2014
I have an old Dell Latitude D620 which is on its last legs.I want to wipe everything off it so I can get rid of it safely. The Internet tells me to press F8 on start up then go into Repair your Computer but I don't have this option on the menu. Other searches say to insert the start up CD but I cant find this anywhere.I am running Windows XP.
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Sep 12, 2014
I work for a charity and have inherited a HP Compaq 6735s in which the HD has been wiped. I do not have any recovery disks. Simple question - how do I get to the Command Line? The Start up menu is just that, a menu. Can I break out to a command line?
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Apr 10, 2010
I have a spare 500GB external drive sitting around. I have never really considered using Time Machine until recently.
For the backup images that they create, do you create an image of the entire hard drive? If so, does the program compress the backup?
I am looking to do a clean install of Mac OSX. When I do a restore of my old files, I'm only looking to restore docs, pics, music, etc.. I don't want to restore previously installed program or settings. Is it possible to do that with Time Machine?
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Apr 12, 2009
about installing a SSD drive in a Mac but I have a couple of questions.
Is a clean install really nessasary? I know Windows computers come with lots of bloatware but do Macs?
Do I have to install drivers?
Do SSD's and Mac's play nice together?
For someone with average computer abilties is replacing the hard drive doable?
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May 10, 2010
So a friend of mine spilled coke on the left side of my unibody mbp with built-in battery. It still works now after 4 days but the q,w,a,shift, capslock, tab,`,1,2,3,4,esc, and all f-keys are very sticky. The battery indicator button also doesn't work. Should I fork over the $1300 to get my entire laptop fixed by apple for $1300 (and have my applecare warranty back in effect) or try to clean it myself with distilled water and a toothbrush? This computer is 11 months old.
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Aug 23, 2009
My new question is I bought a Used Macbook 13 mid 2007 and the last owner wiped the hard drive clean, and just so I can use the macbook I've been using a Live Linux cd, which is ok for now.. Anyway a friend gave me his set of os x 10.4.6 dvds so I can install a mac os but for some reason they won't install, it starts like it's going to install then a message pops up saying' this software can't be installed on this computer'' or something like that..
What can I do, the last owner of this macbook says he lost the CDs that came with it, when he was moving..
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Mar 20, 2009
I use the cloth that came with the XPS, works for the smudges and dust buildup... but what about the particles that are stuck to the screen, makes me want to scratch them off but I seriously don't want to do that.
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Aug 3, 2009
I can get Vista 64bit business from school for free and was wondering should I just format my computer completely,
removing sony's partition, and just download all the drivers off the website.
My FW465J/B we'll be here tomorrow and I think that is the best way to approach the bloatware provided by sony
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Jul 21, 2009
Use a Dyson. Just add the slim attachment to the hose, and run it along the air vents. Worked for me a few month ago when my fan stopped running altogether, and saved me the job of having to open up my laptop.
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Dec 3, 2009
Just got my "HP Pavilion dv6-1362nr Entertainment Notebook PC".
It's loaded with #@#@ !
I tried to do a clean install. Restarted, pressed f11, did recover option of HP (not windows). But the DAMN thing did not ask me about installing the software, IT JUST INSTALLED IT!
How can I clean install it? I want it ultra-clean.
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Jan 6, 2009
I just got one of these the other day and in order to remove all the bloatware, update to SP1 and more, I went and installed a clean Vista, even backing and restoring the activation (as the thread about using ABR says).
hacked by pca
After this, I download every single driver from the HP support page and went through installing them (of couse, the latest version of each and even other bloatware such as help files, wireless assistant, etc.). The thing is that, after everything was installed, I was still having a "yellow unknow device" in the device manager. After much thinking, I guessed that what was missing were the QuickLaunch buttons, because none of the QuickPlay buttons in the keyboard work, neither the "eject" button for the optical drive. But that QuickLaunch wasn't listed in HP drivers. All there was is a Quick Launch Security Update, but not the actual drivers!
After much searching without hope, I tried one last thing: to let windows install those drivers by searching in Windows Update. Amazingly it worked and they were installed as, efectively, the Quick Launch Buttons! But the problem is that those still don't work! The volume mute, slider, treble and bass work (but make no sound when touched, even though they are activated in the Control Panel - Quick Touch), but the QuickPlay, DVD, TV and Eject still don't work!.........
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Jan 12, 2009
when it comes to HP a lot of people like to do a clean install.
Why can't the programs/files be deleted through the "Add or Remove Programs"?
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Apr 10, 2009
i purchased a dv7-1170us about a week ago. love it a lot, would like to preserve its looks more than my prior dated black lenovo i beat around. the machine looks great brand new but is a definite smudge magnet. do any of you that really baby your gear use anything special? i'm planning on ordering some monster screen cleaner and keyboard cleaner by a company called 3m, unless you have better screen/key ideas. i'm sure it's well covered but don't see much about what everyone uses on the other surface areas, the top, trackpad, speaker area. anything special? old t shirt and water?
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Mar 3, 2010
I've been wanting to clean any residue that's built up under the keyboard the past few months: dust, hair, crumbs, whatever else that may have slipped by despite how careful I try to be with letting debris in. A friend that cleaned my old Toshiba would 'pop' the keys out, but that ended up breaking/loosening some hinges later on, and I would prefer not to have send his laptop to Dell for such a silly reason.
Is there any 'easy' way to this? I'm assuming the safest way would be to unscrew the back and locate the area beneath the keyboard?
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Aug 29, 2009
This is the new notebook I am looking at - The Dell Studio S1555-018B - it looks pretty nice, and I am strongly considering purchasing it
I have a few questions regarding a clean install ..........
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Nov 9, 2009
Im running vista 64 home premium and want to use my upgrade discs to get to win 7.
If i want to delete the recovery partition when do i do it? Is the best process to back up my files and then do a recovery back to vistas original state when i first got the machine and them delete the recovery partition?
Then put in the win7 upgrade dvd? Can i merge the recovery partition with the main one in vista after to delete it?
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May 21, 2009
Upon receiving my new Latitude XT2, per the usual, I'd like to perform a clean install of Windows Vista Business.
However, with Dell's ControlPoint software, I'm unsure of the best way to do this.
Those of you with a new Latitude, how did you go about a clean install? More specifically, how did you handle the Dell Control Point software?
Also, what exactly is "Control Vault" and what is it used for?
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May 27, 2010
How well will the E6400 work without the dell DCP software installed. I've had the E6400 only two weeks and thinking of wiping the OS and installing Win 7 again with only the necessary drivers, without all the Dell software. The machine was using over 3.1 gigs of RAM yesterday and there was NOTHING running on the taskbar. Looked at the process list and there was no one process that was consuming my RAM, I was getting nickel and dimed by all the processes that are running. DCP seemed to be a big consumer as well as CPU time.
TIA
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Aug 7, 2009
I ordered one a few days ago and opted out of getting an antivirus as well as any microsoft office products.
That being said, do you guys think a clean install of vista is necessary on a new SXPS 16?
If it is, is following this http://support.dell.com/support/topi...t?docid=339949 a good way of doing it?
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Jan 23, 2009
I’m thinking of doing a clean install on my M1530, and im just trying to decide which options to go for, and which not to.
I will be installing Vista Ultimate. I mainly use the computer for internet surfing, watching films, using Microsoft office, and gaming (Fallout 3, Call of Duty 4 etc.).
The main things I am trying to decide are:
Should I install Mediadirect?
As far as I can see the only advantage of this is getting slightly more (can anyone confirm how much?) battery life whilst watching films on the go. I mainly watch films whilst connected to power, but this could be useful in the future.32 or 64 bit?
I have previously been running 32 bit, but would be more than happy to jump on the 64 bit bandwagon, as I have heard that it’s slightly snappier, and also my 4 gigs of ram would be put to full use. Would there be any compatibility issues with any of my games etc? Would appreciate some info on this. It could lead on to...Dual-boot?
Could have vista 32 and 64 dual booted? Or another thing that took my fancy was perhaps throwing on opensuse? I’m going to open a new thread regarding the battery life etc that this would give to try and decide if its for me,
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Apr 11, 2009
friends how to do a clean install..i installed using the os dvd they have given me but there is still the windows.
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Mar 30, 2010
I have a Dell Vostro 1510 laptop and its fan is making funny noises. so I decided to open it up and clean the cpu fan,
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Mar 25, 2009
I just received my 64 bit cd from dell today and am pretty anxious to get it up and running.
Just checking in to see if there are any important things to note before I start.
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