How do you delete ALL the information off a dell latitude laptop?

i have a dell latitude laptop and i wanna delete all the information off of it because it is my dads old one. how do you delete ALL the information??How do you delete ALL the information off a dell latitude laptop?The easiest and best way is to reinstall Windows from a recovery disk.



If it's really sensitive or embarassing data then there is a free eraser program called Heidi eraser. It writes and rewrites 1s and 0s on the drive. See

http://www.heidi.ie/node/6



if the data is nothing to worry about then just use recovery diskHow do you delete ALL the information off a dell latitude laptop?You can buy software for writing over and deleting the unwanted files, it copies over the files multiple times and then gives the option to delete. You can install the operating system from recovery CD's and this will write over every thing and put the lap top operating system (Windows) back to new factory condition.

Hope this helps.How do you delete ALL the information off a dell latitude laptop?I've been told that the name and certain other information that was entered during the initial registration process of the system, cannot be edited or erased.

I would like to know if that's true.How do you delete ALL the information off a dell latitude laptop?
Find the recovery disc that came with his computer. Insert the disc, and reboot.