Disk wipe software
- CDN_Merlin
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Disk wipe software
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?
Anyone?
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Re: Disk wipe software
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?)
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
Oodles of features in a small package.
(Edit: How's that for service?)
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Re: Disk wipe software
Thanks. Working on Drive 1 now.
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Re: Disk wipe software
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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Re: Disk wipe software
I have always liked EASEUS Partition Manager.
Its free and can expand/contract/partiton drives in addition to destroying data.
Its free and can expand/contract/partiton drives in addition to destroying data.
Re: Disk wipe software
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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Re: Disk wipe software
You would be surprised how effective the shielding on a hard drive is.sdfgeoff wrote:Strong magnet near hard drive. What else....
Re: Disk wipe software
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.
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda (or sdb or sdc or whatever)
Repeat as many times as your feel necessary.
Arch Linux x86-64, Openbox
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"We'll just set a new course for that empty region over there, near that blackish, holeish thing. " Zapp Brannigan
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Re: Disk wipe software
Doesn't work unless you have a UNIX/LINUX based system. I used CCLeaner and it worked fine.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.
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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Re: Disk wipe software
There are lots of linux/unix boot cd/flash images out there that'll get you there.CDN_Merlin wrote:Doesn't work unless you have a UNIX/LINUX based system. I used CCLeaner and it worked fine.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.
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.
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.
Arch Linux x86-64, Openbox
"We'll just set a new course for that empty region over there, near that blackish, holeish thing. " Zapp Brannigan
"We'll just set a new course for that empty region over there, near that blackish, holeish thing. " Zapp Brannigan