Wipe that hard drive before you give it away;

[elroy]

BC Wipe by Jetico, free and is highly rated. There is a similar thread going in General Tech Discussion

[radio1_mike]

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Originally posted by elroy
BC Wipe by Jetico, free and is highly rated. There is a similar thread going in General Tech Discussion

BC Wipe is a really great program. Norton Utilities now has a similar application (DoD-level wiping) too. Of course you can always write zeroes to your drive.

There's also a program called Lysol that wipes fixed drives really quick. You want to Google for it, or drop me a line (it fits on a floppy).

[SpookyEddy]

I would look for something that does 25+ binary pattern overwrites & then zeros the drive. I use a bootable floppy with a basic linux install (kernel, ramdisk , disk tools etc) that handles the process for me.

http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/

Regards

eddy

[grandchehaw]

OK. Lets say a user is getting ready to sell a used hard drive. They just run format c: on the drive and are happy that the data has been removed and then I buy that hard drive. What kind of programs can be used to see if data still is on that hard drive?