Re: Removing the hidden partition

On Jun 29, 2:11 pm, "Sudohnim" <sudoh...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Boris" <boris-badeno...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:1183128868.976263.84160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
As Tom said, the OP had wiped the restore partition, but still had the
diagnostics partition available. Thus, Sudohnim's question to me.

I actually asked two. The first one is no longer important for things
have been cleared up. The second one relates to people wanting to
clean their system and/or hard drive of sensitive data before they
get rid of it. Which is something you apparently wanted to do. It's
important, so I'll try again one last time...

Do you or does anyone believe that using Dell restore wipes (as in
overwrites) ALL of the files/data in the OS partition? I've never
used Dell restore let alone used it and then examined disk sectors
afterwards. So I don't know, but would have to assume it doesn't
until that is proven wrong. IF it doesn't, an explicit wipe before
the restore would be in order.

Yes, you did ask two questions. Sorry, I can't answer your second
question.

After I used Dell (Symantec) restore, I rebooted the machine to see
what would come up. The Microsoft Windows EULA came up, and at that
point, I shut the machine down with the power button, and that was the
last time I touched the machine. I didn't not wipe C: before I did
the Dell restore, and I didn't check the hard drive after I did the
restore. I assumed that all user data was gone, because restore is
supposed to set C: back to factory shipping condition.

.

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