Software to wipe harddrive?

[Scotty_SFF]

Is there any free software that i can use to wipe my hard drive so i can do a fresh install of xp? cheers guys

[digital_exhaust]

I'm pretty sure you can just boot off of your XP cd and re-format your drive.

Assuming there is some reason you can't do that, you can use
GParted.
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/25/1917228
It's free.

**I apologize for using the same answer for so many questions, but this app is awesome**

[protias]

Dban (http://dban.sourceforge.net/)

pick your poison, floppy or CD :D

[pre1014]

i usually stick with ibm scrub or wipedrve. they are commercial, but both work equally well. I have them as floppy images that i memdisk off of cd. I also put dban on that cd but it takes what seems like 10 times longer to do 3 passes. :confused:

[Xipher]

I have used DBAN and Autoclave where I used to work, also just a PPC distro live CD in since it wouldn't boot the PPC DBAN.

[swatbat]

Dban (http://dban.sourceforge.net/)

pick your poison, floppy or CD :D

Gotta agree with Dban if you want to really remove the data but if you just want to format for a reload use the built in software that comes with xp to format the drive.