Be Careful about your data.  It is easy to recover data unless you have a DOD wipe of your drive first.

I had a job this week to backup two computers to get all the data from them so the computers could be donated to charity.  The customer was also concerned about their data, so we did a Special Wipe of the hard drive that leaves no traces of data to be recovered.  For the Do it yourselfer, you may try to format the hard drive.  However, This is no problem for an experienced computer tech to unformat or recover all the data including documents, pictures, music, bank information, bills, anything you might store on a computer and not want someone in Nigeria to get their hands on.  We can Wipe your hard drive to Department of Defense standards which basically writes 0's and 1's over and over your hard drive so that no data can be retrieved.  This takes many hours to run so we usually just let it go 24 hours.  We do this service at only $20 for the drive wipe..  If you want us to backup your data then wipe the drive, we charge $65 total and throw in the drive wipe at no extra.  Call Dimension Computer at 636-527-9660  or 314-729-0300 in Saint Louis about any of your computer questions. We don't charge anything for our advice.