Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Tellemurius]

If all of that was accomplished under a hour im giving away free ice cream at my house
No really i don't see kids needing to use a data recovery program, i never used one myself due to my rates of success is below 25%.

If you are still serious about the data issues run a hard drive test to fill in zeros for the free space.

[Scelly9]

No really i don't see kids needing to use a data recovery program

Of course they don't need to, but curiosity is an extremely powerful motivator.

[lordcooper]

It has been my experience that kids are a hell of a lot more curious and computer literate than most people give them credit for.  Sometimes 'to see what happens' is a valid reason for doing something.

OP: Couldn't you just buy a new hard drive if you're that worried?  You can pick them up really quite cheaply these days.  Also, why do people download porn when it's available to stream for free?

[Nadaka]

It has been my experience that kids are a hell of a lot more curious and computer literate than most people give them credit for.  Sometimes 'to see what happens' is a valid reason for doing something.

OP: Couldn't you just buy a new hard drive if you're that worried?  You can pick them up really quite cheaply these days.  Also, why do people download porn when it's available to stream for free?

Again. New hard drive = substantial chance of needing buying another copy of windows. MSDN licenses expire after your subscription expires and I would almost definitely be unable to reuse my windows keys. Its happened to my all 3 of my 10 windows 7 keys I've tried to use recently.

[kaijyuu]

Really, what's the problem? Delete it if you care, and if they find it, whupidedoo. Unless you're terrified of them finding your credit card numbers or something...

If they want smut, they can find it in much easier ways.

[Tellemurius]

It has been my experience that kids are a hell of a lot more curious and computer literate than most people give them credit for.  Sometimes 'to see what happens' is a valid reason for doing something.

OP: Couldn't you just buy a new hard drive if you're that worried?  You can pick them up really quite cheaply these days.  Also, why do people download porn when it's available to stream for free?

Again. New hard drive = substantial chance of needing buying another copy of windows. MSDN licenses expire after your subscription expires and I would almost definitely be unable to reuse my windows keys. Its happened to my all 3 of my 10 windows 7 keys I've tried to use recently.

just follow my steps then, easy way out without much headaches

Really, what's the problem? Delete it if you care, and if they find it, whupidedoo. Unless you're terrified of them finding your credit card numbers or something...

If they want smut, they can find it in much easier ways.

this was my point

[scriver]

Really, what's the problem? Delete it if you care, and if they find it, whupidedoo. Unless you're terrified of them finding your credit card numbers or something...

If they want smut, they can find it in much easier ways.

The problem, obviously, is either 1, He doesn't want their parents to get angry over him leaving porn on the computer he gave their children; or 2, His ex was into some really weird shit. In which case number 1 would be super-doubly relevant.

[Nadaka]

Both are true. But its also that I have files and information about my taxes, medical insurance, other financial crap. And I am pretty sure that my brothers wife will not approve of my ultra-violent video games either.

But I have pretty much done what I needed to do.

Search for file types that might contain stuff. *.txt, *.jpeg, *.mpg, etc.
Delete them.

Uninstall most programs.
Delete their directories.

I went through some pain attempting to figure out how to delete the history of those searches, and the recent documents lists of various applications. But all those were solved by deleting my user.

when done i used a disk scrubber to overwrite the free space a couple times.

I'll give it another look, but i think its safe now.

[miauw62]

Now make an image file and write on it that they should not be using data-recovery programs, then remove it.
Just for the lulz.

[Mongol13524]

Now make an image file and write on it that they should not be using data-recovery programs, then remove it.
Just for the lulz.

This is brilliant.