[KLUG Members] Formatting a drive: Is it clean?

[Mark Bystry]

I have a general question. We have several old pc's here at work that we are going to clean up 
(format) and give to our employees for home use if they want them. These are really old pentium II's 
that are just hogging up space. At one time, we had some private financial data on a couple of them. 
Will formatting alone erase all of this or do I need to "wipe" the drives? I know a majority of 
people are not going to be able to get data off of a hard drive but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

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Mark Bystry
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