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Hi,
I have been asked to "clean" up some laptops for a friend. I was wondering if I was to delete all local accounts and obvious user data, then create an image of the hard disk. Could I then run a program such as DBAN and then restore the image back on to the same disk leaving no user data behind?
My thinking is that ghost will only backup the "visable" data so restoring on to and DBAN'd drive should mean that volume is clean of any user data????
I hope this makes sense. Has anyone else tried this?
The reason for doing this is that I hope to do away with having to perform a reformat as the laptops have not got the original media
Cheers,
ICE
I have been asked to "clean" up some laptops for a friend. I was wondering if I was to delete all local accounts and obvious user data, then create an image of the hard disk. Could I then run a program such as DBAN and then restore the image back on to the same disk leaving no user data behind?
My thinking is that ghost will only backup the "visable" data so restoring on to and DBAN'd drive should mean that volume is clean of any user data????
I hope this makes sense. Has anyone else tried this?
The reason for doing this is that I hope to do away with having to perform a reformat as the laptops have not got the original media

Cheers,
ICE