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To: outofsalt
1. Get a low-level-formatted drive identical to the one you have.

2. Delete all the files you want gone on your current drive.

3. Using Norton's Ghost drive duplicating application, or one like it, to transfer all your active files from your current drive to the replacement drive (only the active files will be copied).

4. Replace your current drive with the "ghosted" drive and boot your computer up with it to ensure that the computer is working just as before.

5. Then just put the old drive on the shelf as a backup; or reconnect it and low-level format it with the maintenance program from the drive manufacturer. Then save the drive for use if you want to do this same thing again in the future.

One of the benefits is that your files will now be in sequential order, allowing file access to be a little faster.

46 posted on 12/10/2018 3:00:54 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1; TChad

Thank you!


50 posted on 12/10/2018 3:21:37 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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