Disk wipe software

[CDN_Merlin]

Hey, I'm trying to DSX my old hard drivers and none of the programs that were listed in the "Free Software" work. For some reason Eraser gives me errors when I try to run it on my drives. These are old IDE drives that I'm selling but I want to make sure no one can recover the info. I've googled software but I want a simple Windows interface that I can just tell it what drive to wipe and that's it.

Anyone?

[Canuck]

CCleaner... you can delete everything and wipe to your heart's content with drive sweeper... no spyware plus it's free;
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

Oodles of features in a small package.

(Edit: How's that for service?)

[CDN_Merlin]

Thanks. Working on Drive 1 now.

[captain_twinkie]

Its been a while since I have used CCleaner, but what things are now in it that makes it a good program, it always seemed to cause problems for me, what features do you use or not use in it?

[TOR_LordRaven]

I have always liked EASEUS Partition Manager.

Its free and can expand/contract/partiton drives in addition to destroying data.

[AceCombat]

i have found the disk wiper on UBCD 4 works wonders! gives you DOD Level Wiping options and can wipe a disk with or without partition limitations.

[sdfgeoff]

Strong magnet near hard drive. What else....

[Krom]

Strong magnet near hard drive. What else....

You would be surprised how effective the shielding on a hard drive is.

[snoopy]

Unix coreutils, what else:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda (or sdb or sdc or whatever)

Repeat as many times as your feel necessary.

[CDN_Merlin]

Unix coreutils, what else:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda (or sdb or sdc or whatever)

Repeat as many times as your feel necessary.

Doesn't work unless you have a UNIX/LINUX based system. I used CCLeaner and it worked fine.

Sadly someone only offered my $65 for my old system. I'd like a bit more. Yes I know there is no PS or case but it should be at elast worth $100.

[snoopy]

Unix coreutils, what else:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda (or sdb or sdc or whatever)

Repeat as many times as your feel necessary.

Doesn't work unless you have a UNIX/LINUX based system. I used CCLeaner and it worked fine.

Sadly someone only offered my $65 for my old system. I'd like a bit more. Yes I know there is no PS or case but it should be at elast worth $100.

There are lots of linux/unix boot cd/flash images out there that'll get you there.

Okay I won't be too annoying about the linux thing. I've learned that there are a lot of quality utilities out there that come with something like an ubuntu boot CD that have to be collected individually on windows based PC's. I had turned to Linux boot CD's for disk management utilities (partition control, disk cloning, etc) before I became a full-time Linux user.