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Oh yeah, alignment.
Run msinfo32, go to components \ storage \ disks and look for Partition Starting Offset. Tell me what that figure says.
Ta.
I booted it off of the USB, seems I'd chosen the std install vs custom.
I formatted the 1tb disk (or all the partitions I could) that it came with, and a 320gb from the old one, using the windows install software on the usb, I have no way of checking this other than the fact the machine won't boot off of them, can I pass them on in confidence that passwords etc aren't saved on them?
I've never used it but dban is usually the software of choice for properly wiping a drive. A format doesn't clean the data, it just 'resets' things so the disk looks empty but the data might be recoverable. Disk wipe software will actually write junk data to the disk in a way that makes it impossible to recover. Ccleaner also has a disk wipe option
CHeers. I found a way of putting dban on a bootable usb drive.
Except it doesn't work 🙁
Ah well caddies £3 on 't 'bay