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  1. LesWUK

    Erasing files

    Thanks guys, I am currently downloading Hiren's BootCD 8.6 and I will see what it contains and let you know. I must admit to a slight ulterior motive here in trying to get the disk on its feet again. Dell have said they will send a courier to collect the disk, however they said that about a...
  2. LesWUK

    Erasing files

    Thanks Tom I did try booting from the Windows install disk and using the option of Repair, Reformat or Reinstall. In all the three occations it errors with 'Bad Sector(s) Detected'. I am warming to the hammer option Les W
  3. LesWUK

    Erasing files

    Dear Forum members The hard drive on my Laptop has developed a fatal boot sector corruption and those nice people from Dell have sent me a new one, however they want the old one back, fair enough. However there are some sensitive files on the old disk that I need securely erasing before...

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