How can I wipe all user data from my Pocket PC?

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I'm about to sell my iPaq 3870 and don't want the buyer to gain all my
contacts, tasks and diary information or my Word files. Does anyone
know if there's a simple process for wiping the user memory but
keeping the operating system and any programs that I've loaded onto
the PDA since it left the factory?

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"Raj Pillai" <YouMeAndTheMail@Softhome.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Mark Bishop" <markbishopuk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3b2e24b7.0405021211.2ba3bb80@posting.google.com...
> > I'm about to sell my iPaq 3870 and don't want the buyer to gain all my
> > contacts, tasks and diary information or my Word files. Does anyone
> > know if there's a simple process for wiping the user memory but
> > keeping the operating system and any programs that I've loaded onto
> > the PDA since it left the factory?
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> You need to simply perform a hard reset on your ipaq. Please refer the
user
> manual for information on how to perform a hard reset.

The OP said that he wanted to keep "any programs that I've loaded" -
a hard reset will remove these and return the iPAQ to out-of-the-box
condition.

Flib

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"Flibble" <tough@thetop.com> wrote in message news:<#PX#1oIMEHA.3664@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> "Raj Pillai" <YouMeAndTheMail@Softhome.net> wrote in message
> news:eFTAFmIMEHA.1312@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >
> > "Mark Bishop" <markbishopuk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:3b2e24b7.0405021211.2ba3bb80@posting.google.com...
> > > I'm about to sell my iPaq 3870 and don't want the buyer to gain all my
> > > contacts, tasks and diary information or my Word files. Does anyone
> > > know if there's a simple process for wiping the user memory but
> > > keeping the operating system and any programs that I've loaded onto
> > > the PDA since it left the factory?
> >
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > You need to simply perform a hard reset on your ipaq. Please refer the
> user
> > manual for information on how to perform a hard reset.
>
> The OP said that he wanted to keep "any programs that I've loaded" -
> a hard reset will remove these and return the iPAQ to out-of-the-box
> condition.
>
> Flib


Yes, that's the problem. I want to *keep* the programs I've bought and
installed but *remove* the user data/files. Any ideas?

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markbishopuk@hotmail.com (Mark Bishop) wrote in
news:3b2e24b7.0405030147.2c7111@posting.google.com:

> "Flibble" <tough@thetop.com> wrote in message
> news:<#PX#1oIMEHA.3664@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
>> "Raj Pillai" <YouMeAndTheMail@Softhome.net> wrote in message
>> news:eFTAFmIMEHA.1312@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> >
>> > "Mark Bishop" <markbishopuk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> > news:3b2e24b7.0405021211.2ba3bb80@posting.google.com...
>> > > I'm about to sell my iPaq 3870 and don't want the buyer to gain
>> > > all my contacts, tasks and diary information or my Word files.
>> > > Does anyone know if there's a simple process for wiping the user
>> > > memory but keeping the operating system and any programs that
>> > > I've loaded onto the PDA since it left the factory?
>> >
>> > Hi Mark,
>> >
>> > You need to simply perform a hard reset on your ipaq. Please refer
>> > the
>> user
>> > manual for information on how to perform a hard reset.
>>
>> The OP said that he wanted to keep "any programs that I've loaded" -
>> a hard reset will remove these and return the iPAQ to out-of-the-box
>> condition.
>>
>> Flib
>
>
> Yes, that's the problem. I want to *keep* the programs I've bought and
> installed but *remove* the user data/files. Any ideas?

The securest way would be to do a hard reset, then create a guest
partnership to reinstall the programs with.

Scott

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Yes you can do all this things but is it worth it? Come on... it will take
few hours and you can not be sure that you succesfully deleted all your
data. It would be easier to hard reset and then reinstall software.

--

..: Jakub Kanczugowski
..: www.PDAclub.pl

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It's quite possible to erase 'Permanent PIM' by simply
unchecking the option to have these backed up in
the backup utility present on the PPC, and going into
the Filestore to erase all files present by hand, or
with a third-party utility to format the storage and
then performing the hard reset.
Permanent PIM only survives a hard reset because it has
been backed up to Flash memory, which will retain it's
contents even without power, and the backup utility will
see this backup in flash after a hard reset and proceed
to restore it to main memory.

$0.02

~S.



ClarkVent <clarkvent@*remove*hotmail.com> wrote in
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> Scott Seidman wrote:
>
>> The securest way would be to do a hard reset, then create a guest
>> partnership to reinstall the programs with.
>
> The problem is that a hard reset will *not* delete all data. Your
> "permanent PIM" will survive a hard reset. I'm not even sure if it's
> possible at all to erase "permanent PIM".
>
>
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ACE!!! wrote:

> It's quite possible to erase 'Permanent PIM' by simply
> unchecking the option to have these backed up in
> the backup utility present on the PPC

I have no such option in my backup utility...

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In that case I would suspect that either PIM data is
not backed up at all to flash, or backups are handled
by the PIM programs themselves.. i've only had the
chance to play with PPC 2002 and 2003, from what i've
seen in 2002, a hard reset means you have absolutely
nothing left, only the factory settings.


~S.




ClarkVent <clarkvent@*remove*hotmail.com> wrote in news:40abeab9$1_2@
127.0.0.1:

>
> I have no such option in my backup utility...



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ACE!!! a.k.a. ~S.
OS. Osaris / Psion 5mx
iPAQ 5550 / Nokia 6310
HTTP://www.xarane.com
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