windows ME 'died'

[Guest Marcy]

Ok, I had a spare Windows ME pc Emachines tower that I was handed down to

me. After having used it spareingly for 2 years, it died; we had a black out

and I think the machine fried because it was not on a surge protect outlet.

But the machine was off.

 

Anyways, before I part it out, or store it, or trash it, I want to remove

the hardrive to ensure security. This pc was not used but for occasional

surfing but i did make a few payments on it and saved the pages to "my

documents".... So my question is what do I remove to ensure that no

documents, pictures, or anything compromising stays on the computer? I

already know how to open the tower but dont really know what any parts look

like.

So, if you have tips, or can nicely direct me to read up on other sites to

accomplish this, I would appreciate it.

This was at least 7+ year old Windows ME edition and i never got the CD.

This unit worked fine til that day we had the power outage. Now it wont even

turn on. I thank you in advance.

 

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Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! !

[Guest Mart]

Re: windows ME 'died'

 

Here's a couple of reasonably helpful pages :-

http://www.fonerbooks.com/r_hard.htm

http://www.helpwithpcs.com/upgrading/install-hard-drive.htm

 

When you've (successfully) removed it, you could either hit (very hard) it

with a sledge hammer and then take to you local scrap metal recycler or buy

an IDE-USB adapter and use it as a portable storage device.

e.g. http://www.cwol.com/usb/usb-2-ide-adapter-ud200.htm

 

Mart

 

 

 

"Marcy" <RM@RMcom> wrote in message

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> Ok, I had a spare Windows ME pc Emachines tower that I was handed down to

> me. After having used it spareingly for 2 years, it died; we had a black

> out and I think the machine fried because it was not on a surge protect

> outlet. But the machine was off.

>

> Anyways, before I part it out, or store it, or trash it, I want to remove

> the hardrive to ensure security. This pc was not used but for occasional

> surfing but i did make a few payments on it and saved the pages to "my

> documents".... So my question is what do I remove to ensure that no

> documents, pictures, or anything compromising stays on the computer? I

> already know how to open the tower but dont really know what any parts

> look like.

> So, if you have tips, or can nicely direct me to read up on other sites to

> accomplish this, I would appreciate it.

> This was at least 7+ year old Windows ME edition and i never got the CD.

> This unit worked fine til that day we had the power outage. Now it wont

> even turn on. I thank you in advance.

>

> --

> Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! !

>

[Guest moose]

RE: windows ME 'died'

 

Marcy,

What you have to do is take the hard drive out and put it into a different

computer. Than copy all of your files to floppy or cd and then put them on to

your new computer. Then take your broken computer and throw it away and then

it is clean!

 

"Marcy" wrote:

> Ok, I had a spare Windows ME pc Emachines tower that I was handed down to

> me. After having used it spareingly for 2 years, it died; we had a black out

> and I think the machine fried because it was not on a surge protect outlet.

> But the machine was off.

>

> Anyways, before I part it out, or store it, or trash it, I want to remove

> the hardrive to ensure security. This pc was not used but for occasional

> surfing but i did make a few payments on it and saved the pages to "my

> documents".... So my question is what do I remove to ensure that no

> documents, pictures, or anything compromising stays on the computer? I

> already know how to open the tower but dont really know what any parts look

> like.

> So, if you have tips, or can nicely direct me to read up on other sites to

> accomplish this, I would appreciate it.

> This was at least 7+ year old Windows ME edition and i never got the CD.

> This unit worked fine til that day we had the power outage. Now it wont even

> turn on. I thank you in advance.

>

> --

> Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! !

>

>

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