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    Junior Member WBWatson's Avatar
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    Wiping a hard drive

    I have an old 40 gig IDE hard drive that I pulled out of my old machine and I'd like to wipe it clean of all the stuff on it like the OS and such. I want a clean blank drive so I can put nothing but back up files on or to back up certain programs on my main system. How do I go about getting the stuff off the drive?

    The set up I have for powering the drive is a Scythe Kama connect USB 2.0 to Sata/IDE muti connector kit. I use this to transfer my files from that old 40 gig IDE to my 250gig SATA drive on my main box. Now I just want to get rid of all the **** left on the 40 gig IDE drive.

    Thanks!

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    Mod w/ an attitude Sterling_Aug's Avatar
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    Lots of ways to clean it up.

    Search for Zap or DBAN. I like DBAN because it does a zero fill to overwrite the data on the drive. There is no chance anyone could recover the old data after that.

    http://dban.sourceforge.net/

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    Oh heck, just right-click the drive and format it. You don't need to spend 16 hours doing a government wipe if you're just going to reuse it.
    MS MCP, MCSE

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    Mod w/ an attitude Sterling_Aug's Avatar
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    He could do a 40 GB 1 pass wipe in just a few minutes.

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