How Do I Wipe The Hard Drive Clean?

[adams]

does anyone have the seagate one? i looked on their site, but didn't see anything about such a thing. thanks.

[Nomadj]

Here's a small low-level format utility by East-Tec called Sanitizer. http://www.east-tec.com/sanitizer/index.htm
or
Active@ KillDisk - Hard Drive Eraser v.1.1http://www.killdisk.com/eraser.htm

Grab the freeware boot floppy maker here.
http://www.killdisk.com/downloads/ki...loppysetup.exe

This can overwrite up to 99 times. Not just simply a low-level format utility.
All partitions and formatting is stripped. Industrial strength!
Active@ KillDisk conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M.
Sending you more info on the last one Nomadj

[Cyberion]

ahh... How about partition magic? You can run a low level on it. Doesn't that "wipe" the info?

[Nomadj]

adams73533 Hope this helps. http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/di...lfmt_what.html http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html

Nomadj

[Mitch1]

With a western digital go get the disk utilities program from WD and write 0's (Zeros) to the disk it Wipes the whole disk clean.the whole disk it takes quite awhile but it does the job . I have used this to get rid of a password.

[war59312]

I use Eraser:
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

And Create A Nuke Boot Desk :P

[war59312]

Quote:

Originally posted by wase4711@Jul 23 2003, 09:22 PM
thank you grey pidgeon! grabbed the utility and it looks like what I want...
Now, if only I could remember how to FDISK!!!


wase4711

um fdisk is pretty easy man

just get a winme boot disk or whatever

then do fdisk

and then create your partions and shit

then format each partion like format c:

takes to damn long though thats for sure

[adams]

thanks to Sonny and Will Sasso at another board for telling me about this app to do the low level format too.

Quote:

http://www.samsung.com/Products/Hard...s/clearhdd.htm

i haven't tried it yet, but its there in case you do.


btw, thanks nomadj for the links to seagates.

[BlackMantis]

yea I agree with u war59312, but winme sux i wouldnt even trust a bootdisk from it.. I'd rather use win98 or sumn.... I get them from www.bootdisk.com .. they have quite a selection there.

[JacKDynne]

Here is the link I promised wase

Darik's Boot and Nuke v1.0.1
by Darik Horn
Relevant URL:http://dban.sourceforge.net/
Platforms: Os Independent
Summary:

Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.



/JD