Hard Drive Wipe Format

[scatpack]

Can anyone recommend a good shareware wipe format utilty for wiping a drive clean before i sell my computer?

thanks!

 

[ShuttleLuv]

Partition Magic 8 has this built in.

 

[scatpack]

Partition Magic 8 is shareware?

 

[ShuttleLuv]

Sorry, didn't see shareware in your post.

Seriously, I'd like to know a answer to this also. I looked high wide and narrow for a disk wiper quite some time ago to no avail.

 

[t. shuffle]

Autoclave or DBAN.

Of the two, I'd go with DBAN.

 

[codeflux]

i use killdisk (floppy- or CD-bootable) - google for it.

 

[k1pp3r]

you can use bootitng, works good for me, when it asks you to install hit cancel and you will go into maintiance mode where you can do your partition work

 

[KevinO]

Aren't there utilities that most drive manufacturers make that will write 1's and 0's to the dirve?

 

[ShuttleLuv]

Yeah you're right. WD has a built in wiper in the Data Lifegaured utility. Alot of the disk makers do today.

 

[drdoug99]

Aren't there utilities that most drive manufacturers make that will write 1's and 0's to the dirve?

yea....whatever brand your HDD is...i'm sure you can download a utility to wipe the drive.

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

pretty sure this has the tools to do the job

 

[scatpack]

Thanks guys.. it was for a laptop drive (for sale in the "for sale forum", coincedentally) so i didnt have a hd install disk. I ended up using a program called ERASER.