u/Travellinglense

Doing some deep cleaning and found a very old laptop. I can’t figure out how to clear the hard drive of personal info before it hits the trash bin. Is there a format, disk wipe or factory reset on windows xp?

It’s a dell inspiron e1405 running Windows XP media center edition 2005 per the label on the back. Windows install disks are long gone and I’m not even sure it will connect to internet.

I’m an Apple person (I know! the horror!) and not PC, windows or Linux literate so explain like I’m five please.

Thanks in advance.

The crew has been to the White House, New York Times Square and Good Morning America. Are there plans for other public events in the US? I’d love to attend one if I could. I’ve seen nothing announced on the NASA+ events page.