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Disk wipe software

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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.

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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?)
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Thanks. Working on Drive 1 now.
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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?
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I have always liked EASEUS Partition Manager.

Its free and can expand/contract/partiton drives in addition to destroying data.
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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.
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Strong magnet near hard drive. What else....
Eh?
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sdfgeoff wrote:Strong magnet near hard drive. What else....
You would be surprised how effective the shielding on a hard drive is.
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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.
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snoopy wrote: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.
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CDN_Merlin wrote:
snoopy wrote: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.
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