nope, the ONLY way to truly get ALL the data erased completely off your HD is to get a wiping program. Formatting only cleans most of the data off your HD, but any restoration company, or law enforcement agency can easily recover your data off a "formatted" hard drive, unless you wipe it clean!!
If you've ever seen stories on the news, about people who go to landfills, and grab old pc's that have been buried there, they say at least 80% of them have hd's with data they were able to recover!!!
Its not a bad idea to do this when you re-format; i just am not sure the best proggie to use to do this..it has to be bootable, and it has to work prior to windows loading...
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@Richard, thanks for the pcnineonone link!!
