Windows based hard drive shredder/wiper

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Rakinos

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I have a lot of hard drives to go format and I was wondering if there was a good hard drive shredding software to make sure that all data cannot be recovered. I was thinking about just using a usb-> ide adaptor to speed up the process.
 
I think one of the most overlooked items is Spybot's file shredder. Open up the Tools and check it out (Mode\Advanced). Here's a clip from their help file:

The first 5 shreds are using pre-defined bit patterns that should make even hardware recovery impossible. Any further pass will use a random bit pattern that is changing every few bytes.
Please notice: one pass is not enough to shred a file, as the heads of your hard disk won't hit the same track 100,00% of the time. There are small differences of a few µm that will allow pros to reconstruct even overwritten data. That is why multiple shreds are necessary, and why different patterns should be used.
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why must it be windows based?
My assumption is that you have 1 computer and you need to use it while whiping out harddrives on the second ide channel or usb correct?

If you have a spare computer(even an old one), or don't mind not being able to use your computer then I recomend dban

http://dban.sourceforge.net/ I uses the DOD spec'd erasing algorithim thingy
there is a floppy and cd based version, I recommend both incase one doesn't work.
At work I have an old junk computer that I use to whipe out harddrives when we dispose of computers.
 
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