Erase personal data from corporate laptop

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Published on 2010-05-20T13:37:44Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 13:50 UTC
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I need to delete my data from the company laptop. Nothing special just 2 or 3 folders (I have Dropbox installed on this PC) and I'd like to be sure they are gone. I read about free tools and bootable CDs to erase the entire disk, I don't need those but just a free tool to put some zeros where my data were before.

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