computor hard drive

[len]

does anyone know how too check the hard drive for unwanted junk,you know what i mean,i need to make sure there is nothing foul on there.

[Swampfox]

Windows Explorer maybe? It depends on what you are doing with it, If your giving it away, it will take a little time to look through everything but this should do the trick, If your throwing it out best bet is to pull the hard drive out and smash it into little bits and pieces

[Jultzya]

Originally posted by len
does anyone know how too check the hard drive for unwanted junk,you know what i mean

Can you explain further?

Wat ya ben doin'?

[TitleLess]

What kind of junk ?

[len]

i need to make sure there is no smut on there,ya dig.im running windows xp home edition,now please tell me how too check it,or im gonna tell on all of youse.

[TitleLess]

No when you say you want to make sure there is none on there, which one of the following best fits your meaning of "make sure"

1.) Something you do not want the casual user to see, who doesn't know much about computers but does no how to open files

2.) Something that you do not want the IT guy at work to find out is on your computer ?

3.) Something that you do not want the fuzz to find when they bang your door down and confiscate your hard drive to look for drug trafficking records ?

[l•k]

run "Disk Cleanup"

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I don't know nuttin about computers

[Jultzya]

1.) Bury it

2.) Password protect it

3.) Smash it, scratch it, cut it, burn it, and then hide it! LOL

[beenthere]

You should have gotten windows x cleaner before you went to those smut sights.

Your out of luck now, short of reformating the hard drive.

[Mr HVAC41]

i found out from a computer guy that if you get 1 piece of dust on the internal parts, the drive wont work. i took an old one apart just to see how it worked once. since i had it apart and it was going to da trash, i, ahh, scratched it up inside, put it back together and tried it. it didnt a thing!!!!

or get the vari bit out and see how many holes you can drill through the sucka!!!

[beenthere]

Originally posted by outside rep
C:\ Format = No Porn

Not really.

Debug can find files even after formating.

Just most people don't know how to recontruct them.

Thats why disk cleaning software writes to the disk 10 or more times.

[beenthere]

Originally posted by outside rep
what kind of porn do you have LOL

LOL

Its all legal

[The Penguin]

Ok for real help:
1 do search for clips and jpgs using the file extension as your search criteria. then delete as needed.
2 redo search for all jpg, gif. bmp. tif files then delete as needed.
3 redo search for all movie clips rar mov mpeg3,4 etc wav etc then delete as needed.

NOW do drive clean up optimising i think its called.

run cache cleaner this should clean out temp internet files.
The above will satisfy you that casual users of your comp will be unlikely to come across anything you don't want them to.
If you have xp then set up passworded accounts and set your self up as admin then password protect your files as needed

If you have partitioned your hd into sectors using the ntfs file system you can then password protect files and or hard drives.
there is a method of degausing your hard drive it wipes everything and is impossible to recover what it does is erase stuff then over writes the sectors with 1,0 s it does it about four or more times. Short of incenerating the hd this is your next best defence