Hello all,
I just had a quick question regarding a complete PC refresh I'm working on. I have a complete endpoint & full disk encrypted (McAfee) Windows 8 system. I am trying to remove everything, completely wipe the disk, and boot a new fresh Windows 7 OS via USB directly over that.
A little background: There are actually multiple laptops I wish to do this with, as my company acquired another company's equipment through their bankruptcy.
I am just unsure on if the boot via USB will completely wipe out the old drive, or if Windows.old will still exist and if the encryption will still be injected somewhere?
Also, I'm not entirely sure on how to do this. I don't want the computers touching any networks until I end up doing this refresh so that the encryption doesn't gather any of my information, since I know it can.
This is enterprise-level encryption, if that makes a difference.
Thank you
I just had a quick question regarding a complete PC refresh I'm working on. I have a complete endpoint & full disk encrypted (McAfee) Windows 8 system. I am trying to remove everything, completely wipe the disk, and boot a new fresh Windows 7 OS via USB directly over that.
A little background: There are actually multiple laptops I wish to do this with, as my company acquired another company's equipment through their bankruptcy.
I am just unsure on if the boot via USB will completely wipe out the old drive, or if Windows.old will still exist and if the encryption will still be injected somewhere?
Also, I'm not entirely sure on how to do this. I don't want the computers touching any networks until I end up doing this refresh so that the encryption doesn't gather any of my information, since I know it can.
This is enterprise-level encryption, if that makes a difference.
Thank you
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