Mertin
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Registered: 12th Oct 05
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Is there anyway of deleting everything from a laptop, like a history of whats been viewed on the laptop etc? Basically anything thats kept on there after something has been deleted? Internet and non internet, such as films watched on a hardrive plugged into the laptop
Not for me btw  Someone at work who has to hand back his works laptop
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LukesCorsaSXi
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Have you got an operating system disc for the laptop? Because if you have, when you install a fresh version of windows, everything is deleted off your computer and its as if you have only just took it out of the box.
Edit: I would imagine though, when your mate hands in his laptop, they will probably wipe it and put a fresh version on anyway. 
[Edited on 10-04-2011 by LukesCorsaSXi]
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Mertin
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Il ask if he has. its just incase they look through it and see stuff such as porn that hes watched via his hardrive
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Matty SRi
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Just installing the OS again doesn't wipe it, you'd have to format the hard drive first.
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Sam
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Formatting and reinstalling alone won't completely cover your tracks.
You'd have to use a program to zero out every sector on the drive and then format/reinstall.
But as Luke says, they'll probably just wipe the drive anyway.
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