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Disk wipe software
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:27 am
by CDN_Merlin
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?
Re: Disk wipe software
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:38 am
by Canuck
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?)
Re: Disk wipe software
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 7:01 am
by CDN_Merlin
Thanks. Working on Drive 1 now.
Re: Disk wipe software
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 7:57 pm
by captain_twinkie
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?
Re: Disk wipe software
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:16 pm
by TOR_LordRaven
I have always liked
EASEUS Partition Manager.
Its free and can expand/contract/partiton drives in addition to destroying data.
Re: Disk wipe software
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 11:42 am
by AceCombat
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.
Re: Disk wipe software
Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 11:27 pm
by sdfgeoff
Strong magnet near hard drive. What else....
Re: Disk wipe software
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 8:31 am
by Krom
sdfgeoff wrote:Strong magnet near hard drive. What else....
You would be surprised how effective the shielding on a hard drive is.
Re: Disk wipe software
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 10:04 am
by snoopy
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.
Re: Disk wipe software
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 10:38 am
by CDN_Merlin
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.
Doesn't work unless you have a UNIX/LINUX based system. I used CCLeaner and it worked fine.
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.
Re: Disk wipe software
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 2:48 pm
by snoopy
CDN_Merlin wrote: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.
Doesn't work unless you have a UNIX/LINUX based system. I used CCLeaner and it worked fine.
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.
There are lots of linux/unix boot cd/flash images out there that'll get you there.
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.