yes, you don't need to pull the RAM. cycle the system's power once and it's all gone. I've had many occasions where the only thing that stopped me from picking up scads of inexpensive RAM was some cockamami policy handed down from the CIO that all storage media had to be destroyed before the computer was surplussed.

in my other post I know I said "might not need to", that should have read "you don't need to". I forget that smileys don't quite communicate what they used to :mellow:

my steps would be:

• archive
• 4, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18.
• restore