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What's the best way to purge a hard drive of everything except the OS?

Asked by ETpro (34605points) May 29th, 2012

I have an old, behemoth Toshiba laptop with a 17 inch screen. It’s got Win XP on it, and I’d like to leave that installed. I want to donate it to some charity that can use it, or give it to Goodwill. What’s the best way to delete all users and wipe the applications and files clean with enough overwrites so that personal data it currently has on it will not be recoverable?

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