Erasing a hard drive

[Brodieboy143]

I have 2 hard drives (Seagate U series 5 and Hitachi Desktar) and want to erase the data on them. i want to know, what is the best and most secure way to do this without spending any money on shareware

[Midknyte]

DBAN. It's on UBCD.


Tech Tools (http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=173743)

[Sterling_Aug]

Or DBAN is available as a seperate program:

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

[Peter M]

Also very thorough and free is to boot to Linux (e.g. from CD with Knoppix) and use the 'shred' utility on the drive.

[Sterling_Aug]

So many options to try, so little time to try them all. What is a girl to do? LOL

[Steve R Jones]

I've never done anything more then delete/recreate partitions and format...Course I don't know who I am either - had my identity stolen too many times :x

[Brodieboy143]

Thanks for your replies guys i will use DBAN and if that doesnt do the trick (doubt it) ill use mcafee shredder (like the linux version i imagine)