Wiping the Drive???-- and complete reload of XP???

[BlindedByScience]

Originally Posted by Bill86

I haven't read into Windows 8 but I always wait a year or so before moving to the current OS. Just get the general consensus as to whether people like it and it's stable enough to upgrade. Saved me from going to Vista

http://www.dban.org/ <--That's DBAN, a little reading for you. It's a ~3 hour wipe.

....we have it in the labs here and the "in house" reviews here are very mixed. I've seen at least one blog call it "...the new Vista...".

Not for me - W7-64 is just too good.....

Edited to add - you can get a slug of great utilities on a bootable CD for free (Including DBAN). Having all this stuff on a bootable CD is way, way convenient when you're working on PC's. Visit:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

...download the ISO, burn a CD. I use this all the time, here in the lab, and at home when I'm building or working on PC's