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Secure Erase problem

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meinzorn

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I have tried to completely erase a hard drive that I have laying around because I wanted to try to get rid of it and for some reason it isn't working.

I run secure eraser on it and it acts like it is working, but nothing ends up happening. I've also tried to use a program called eraser with the same result.

When I use recuva to check and see if the files are deleted, it can still find them and it can still recover them..

Any suggestions? I'm new to this, maybe I just need to be pointed in the right tdirection of software?
 
I had a similar problem where i was trying to erase a clients computer that had a whole lot of security features (from verizon wireless) And anything i used looked like it worked but then really didn't.
I ended up using a program called Kill Disk.
That did it and it worked fine after that.
So try that one and see if it works
 
Use DBAN. It's a BIOS-level disk format tool, but that's not a good sign that disk wiping isn't working; that's usually indicative of a failing disk.

Still, use other tools and see if it could be the software, but I doubt it. That's why I mention DBAN, as it's usually the kernel most disk wiping tools are based around anyways, and doing it on a BIOS-level means no OS issues nor do you need to run this program on an OS partition.
 
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