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While I agree with Dilbert that there is no need to destroy all the info on a hard drive before a reinstall, I would assert that there certainly is no harm. Also, depending on the size of the hard drive in question, you could use a program like Partition Magic, or Acronis Partition Manager (or even plain old fdisc) to create a partition on the hard drive, move the stuff he wants to keep there. Resize the C: partition to about 15 gigs, and wipe that with DBAN. Then reinstall Windows on the C: drive. Reinstall the programs you need. This also protects a lot of stuff if you have a Windows meltdown. I have over 400 gigs of hard disk space on two hard drives, and the C: drive is 25 gigs. I have never lost any data, and can regularly wipe and reinstall if I choose, which I do about every 4-6 months.
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