Laptop personal data help

[RSWANNABE]

Need some help with my corporate laptop.

I've taken an in-house position at my company moving in from a full time field job. I have a laptop that was provided to me and I had full admin rights and could do whatever I wanted with it since I would never be on the corporate network. Since I will be going into an office position and I will have to hand my laptop over to IT so they can screw it up and lock it down I figured I would first be proactive on what I handed them before not being able to do anything with it.

Besides going into Chrome Setting for internet history and such what else should I do to protect myself and personal data. I don't want someone or anybody to be able to get anything off of here just by going to a folder or cache file or something.

I'm not hiding anything, just trying to be careful in case they give the laptop to someone else and I get stuck with a desktop pc.

Feel free to start with the porn jokes and such, cause I know it will head there immediately. LOL


Thanks in advance.

[jspec]

Just format the drive. If they are taking it back that is. If not get an external drive and make a backup. Then go in and delete the account you use and make a fresh account. This should empty out most of your files.

[RSWANNABE]

Cool.

Thanks for that insight. I'm not sure if they're taking it back, but if they do format it will be.

[Nokooler]

Dban or Killdisk

I use them every week, more dban because I have it on a disk.

[Bateater]

Quick format it, or swap the hard drive and keep the old one and hand it back and say you have no idea what happened.

[RSWANNABE]

Thanks guys.

Find out today that we will pull data, format and upgrade Windows to Pro version as that's all that's allowed on the network. So no real worries. Just trying to be safe, but this will do just fine.